God Quote by John Ortberg — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.”

“To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.”

“If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.”

“What does this think about that?”

“I wish all those who've found God, would tell the rest of us where he's been hiding.”

“I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.”

“If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.”

“The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...”

“By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.”