Being right is actually a very hard burden to be able to carry gracefully and humbly. That’s why nobody likes to sit next to the kid in class who’s right all the time. One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

— John Ortberg Jr.

John Ortberg Jr. Quotes

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

— John Ortberg Jr.

The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

— John Ortberg Jr.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’

— John Ortberg Jr.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

— John Ortberg Jr.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

— John Ortberg Jr.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.

— John Ortberg Jr.

God 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 Jr.

In the beginning, we’re told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.

— John Ortberg Jr.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God’s counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

— John Ortberg Jr.

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

— John Ortberg Jr.

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

— John Ortberg Jr.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

— John Ortberg Jr.

I don’t have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else’s lap doesn’t just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

— John Ortberg Jr.

Art 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 Jr.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

— John Ortberg Jr.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

— John Ortberg Jr.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

— John Ortberg Jr.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

— John Ortberg Jr.

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

— John Ortberg Jr.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

— John Ortberg Jr.
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