Love Beyond Reason Quotes

“If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“There 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, Love Beyond Reason

“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“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.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“Love me, love my rag dolls," God says. It's a package deal.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung, and possibly be broken…. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. C. S. LEWIS”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“God did not create us out of need. He created us out of his love.C. S. Lewis wrote,“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“What is the work of God? It is simply to see what Jesus would see if he were looking through my eyes, and respond as he would respond. He”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“Grace always and only consists of what will help someone come home to the Father.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“Sheldon Van Auken wrote,“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness.” Guess what he said is the best argument against it? “When Christians are sombre, joyless, self-righteous, smug, narrow, repressive—Christianity dies a thousand deaths.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“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.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“I am the God of the universe, maker of heaven and earth. I designed your body, I fashioned your world, I created your potential. I have wisdom and guidance and love that I long to communicate to you but I can’t get through. Your heart and life are too noisy, and I will not scream. I love you. But you need a button for”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“they think of themselves as being totally devoted to the work of God. But they are so consumed with themselves that when God himself comes, they never notice. They are not paying attention. They fail to recognize the presence of the very God they claim to serve so faithfully. What other word than blind can you use to describe them?”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

“There 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 a love beyond reason. This is the love of God. This is the love with which God loves you and me.”
― John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason