01UndatedA deep soul lives in conscious awareness of eternity, not simply today.John Ortberg / quote ↗
02UndatedLeadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.John Ortberg / quote ↗
03UndatedWe must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic.John Ortberg / quote ↗
04UndatedThe greatest moment of your life is now. Not because it's pleasant or happy or easy, but because this moment is the only moment you've got. Every past moment is irretrievably gone. It's never coming back. If you live there, you lose your life. And the future is always out there somewhere. You can spend an eternity waiting for tomorrow, or worrying about tomorrow. If you live there, you likewise will lose your life. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.John Ortberg / quote ↗
05UndatedWe are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.John Ortberg / quote ↗
06UndatedBeing deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.John Ortberg / quote ↗
07UndatedThe most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.John Ortberg / quote ↗
08UndatedWhen I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.John Ortberg / quote ↗
09UndatedSloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.John Ortberg / quote ↗
10UndatedWhen preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.John Ortberg / quote ↗
11UndatedLearning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.John Ortberg / quote ↗
12UndatedArt is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.John Ortberg / quote ↗
14UndatedAt the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.John Ortberg / quote ↗
15UndatedThis much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.John Ortberg / quote ↗
16UndatedJesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.John Ortberg / quote ↗
17UndatedLove of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.John Ortberg / quote ↗
18Undated'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.John Ortberg / quote ↗
19UndatedChurches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.John Ortberg / quote ↗
20UndatedI have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.John Ortberg / quote ↗
21UndatedGod has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.John Ortberg / quote ↗
22UndatedFor most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.John Ortberg / quote ↗
23UndatedPolitics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'John Ortberg / quote ↗
