John Ortberg

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

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.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

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

The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.