John Ortberg Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

  John Ortberg

  Love, Neat And Tidy, Community

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

• I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Hate, Thinking

• The church is in the hope business.

  John Ortberg

  Church

• "Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."

  John Ortberg

  Church, Veins, Want

• I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

  John Ortberg

  Leadership, Christian, Church

• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, People, Personality

• Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

  John Ortberg

  Church, May, Sin

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

  John Ortberg

  Church, Resistance, Pessimism

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