John Ortberg Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

  John Ortberg

  Perseverance, Powerful, Disappointment

• Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

  John Ortberg

  Self Esteem, Believe, Heart

• Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.116, Harper Collins

• Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, Schedules

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.84, Harper Collins

• I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering awhile: Joy is at the heart of God himself. We will never understand the significance of joy in human life until we understand its importance to God. I suspect that most of us seriously underestimate God's capacity for joy.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, Joy, Needs

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.65, Harper Collins

• God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, People, Giving

• At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.

  John Ortberg

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

• At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.100, Harper Collins

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