Quotes from John Ortberg

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.