Steps Quotes

“Because victimhood is associated with innocence, it brings an elevated moral status. Because victims are viewed as entitled to justice or compensation, it also implies the right to a higher level of power.”
― John Ortberg, Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

“Use Each Perplexing Moment of the Day as an Invitation to Surrender”
― John Ortberg, Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

“Self-denial means knowing only Christ, no longer knowing oneself. . . . No longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial says only: he is going ahead; hold fast to him.”[11]”
― John Ortberg, Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

“According to Jesus, what is “fixed” about us—what is established permanently and irrevocably—is not our talent but our worth.”
― John Ortberg, Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

“When we surrender our will to that which is greater than ourselves, we are immersing ourselves in a spiritual reality of transcendent goodness and power.”
― John Ortberg, Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

“To know God is to live in an interactive, participatory relationship with him, to say yes to God from the core of my being—my heart.”
― John Ortberg, Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough