223 Quotes by John Ortberg Jr.

God designed us so that our choices, our thoughts and desires, and our behavior would be in perfect harmony with each other and would be powered by an unbroken connection with God, in perfect harmony with him and with all of his creation. That is a well-ordered soul.

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

Author and former seminary professor Neal Plantinga once said something amazing about our capacity for addiction. He said it shows that we were wired for ecstasy. Not the drug, but pure, ecstatic joy. Our ceaseless craving for more, though it can kill us when unredeemed, may be a hint of the joy that we were made for when the soul finds its center in God.

The “with God” life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The “without God” life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

The time to love is now. When we love, we enter into the mystery of eternity. Nothing offered in love is ever lost, for this mortal life is not the whole story. This life is to the next a kind of school, a kind of preparation for the me you were meant to be. That person will go into eternity.

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.