Quotes from John Ortberg

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.

God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions are met: when we have live options, when the stakes are momentous, and when we must make a choice.3

can be "sitting at Jesus feet" when I'm kneeling in prayer or negotiating a contract or fixing my kids lunch or watching a movie. All it requires is my asking him to be my teacher and companion in this moment.