John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
7 quotes
"...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
"The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
"Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
"True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
"We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
"...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
"We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People