Top 113 Quotes by John Ortberg

About John Ortberg

These are some quotes by American author John Ortberg Clergyman, who was born on May 5, 1957.

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.

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

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

John Ortberg

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

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

John Ortberg

God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.

God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.

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. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

John Ortberg

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

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

John Ortberg

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

John Ortberg

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

John Ortberg

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

John Ortberg

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

John Ortberg

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