John Ortberg Quotes

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

What I realized was that CrossFit wasn't what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.

More people know who I am, but I don't feel any different within myself - I think that's the main thing.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.

We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.