True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary. John Ortberg More Quotes by John Ortberg More Quotes From John Ortberg The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’ John Ortberg promise Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped. John Ortberg irrational offers grace God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become. John Ortberg wickedness one-day looks God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement. John Ortberg train-of-thought pain children Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them. John Ortberg outcast spokes jesus Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one. John Ortberg messiah complexes humans For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God. John Ortberg wells soul needs Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. John Ortberg safety procrastination way Make your life about something bigger than your life. John Ortberg bigger 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 crazy soul idols How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit. John Ortberg space practice doe Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious. John Ortberg powerful fear peace The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced. John Ortberg masterpiece mass doe The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope. John Ortberg possibility transformation essence Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church. John Ortberg sin church may I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior. John Ortberg hate spiritual thinking One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality. John Ortberg personality spiritual people To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart. John Ortberg perseverance powerful disappointment Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason. John Ortberg reason people way Sloth 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 pilots sloth needs
