The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

— 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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