Quotes from John Ortberg
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
- John Ortberg
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
- John Ortberg
We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
- John Ortberg
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
- John Ortberg
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
- John Ortberg
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
- John Ortberg
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.
- John Ortberg
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.
- John Ortberg
I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.
- John Ortberg
Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.
- John Ortberg
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.
- John Ortberg
Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
- John Ortberg