John Ortberg

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

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

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up.

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

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.