John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines For Ordinary People Quotes
The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.
...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.
...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.
Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.
We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.