“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.”
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John Ortberg,
The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.Love grows when people serve.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.” ― John Ortberg Jr., Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” ― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box
“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
“The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.” ― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason
“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.” ― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
“Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.” ― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
“I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.” ― John Ortberg
“Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.” ― John Ortberg
“There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.” ― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” ― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
“For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.” ― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
“God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.” ― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason
“If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.Love grows when people serve.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.” ― John Ortberg Jr., Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” ― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box
“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
“The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.” ― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason
“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.” ― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
“Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.” ― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
“I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.” ― John Ortberg
“Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.” ― John Ortberg
“There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.” ― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” ― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
“For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.” ― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
“God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.” ― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.” ― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason
