Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
John OrtbergThe good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
John OrtbergFor many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
John OrtbergThe greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.
John OrtbergThere is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.
John Ortberg