All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know? Quotes

“Very often God’s will for you will be “I want you to decide,” because decision making is an indispensable part of character formation. God is primarily in the character-forming business, not the circumstance-shaping business.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“God’s primary will for your life is not the achievements you accrue; it’s the person you become.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“May your expectations all be frustrated, May all of your plans be thwarted, May all of your desires be withered into nothingness, That you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and can sing and dance in the love of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“God says, “I have set before you an open door,” not “I have set before you a finished script.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“I don’t know why some prayers get yeses and some prayers get nos. I know the anguish of a no when you want a yes more than you want anything in the world. But I don’t know why. I only know that in the Cross God’s no to his only Son was turned into God’s yes to every human being who ever lived.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“It’s not what’s on the other side of the door that gives me confidence to go through; it’s the one who goes with me.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“The sequence in the Bible is usually not calling; deep feeling of peace about it; decision to obey; smooth sailing. Instead, it’s usually calling; abject terror; decision to obey; big problems; more terror; second thoughts; repeat several times; deeper faith.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Don’t wait for passion to lead you somewhere you’re not. Start by bringing passion to the place where you are.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Going through open doors means I will have to be able to trust God with my future when the path I’m called to take does not look like the obvious one.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“We don’t follow clarity. We follow God.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Lack of love makes it easy for me to say no to the door.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“An open door is not just a picture of something good. It involves a good that we do not yet fully know. An open door does not offer a complete view of the future. An open door means opportunity, mystery, possibility—but not a guarantee.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Jesus takes his friends up a mountain. Not enough of them. Not enough faith. Doesn’t matter. What matters isn’t whether they’re ready. What matters is that he’s ready. And you and I never know when he’s ready. He’s in charge of that.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“The way to go through one of God's open doors is with all your heart. And 'with all your heart' means that sacrifice is involved --- choosing one thing means not choosing another.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“There is a cure for buyer's remorse. There is a better way to go through the door --- with all your heart.

Hop.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“If I stew over what might have been, I rob myself of energy and spirit to see all the small doors God sets before me each day. I rob myself of precisely the spiritual assets I need to find life with God right here, right now.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Discerning open doors is never the same as finding guaranteed success.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“A call doesn't mean I can't fail.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Very often a sense of calling comes when people begin to pay attention to what moves their hearts. Often when somebody sees a problem in the world and gets all fired up, he or she says, 'Somebody has to do something about that!' A lot of times, that's the beginning of the call.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Growth is not the ability to avoid problems. Growth is the ability to handle larger and more interesting problems.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Life is facing and solving problems. When God calls people, he calls them to face a problem.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Your identity is defined by the problem you embrace. Tell me what your problem is, and I'll tell you who you are.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Don't wait for passion to lead you somewhere you're not. Start by bringing passion to the place where you are.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Wisdom in the Bible is the ability to make great decisions. Wisdom is the art of living well.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Superstition seeks to use the supernatural for my purposes; faith seeks to surrender to God's purposes. Faith teaches us that there is a Person behind the universe, and that Person responds to communication just as all persons do. Prayer is the primary way we communicate with God, and that's why prayer is so closely associated with seeking and discerning open doors.”
― John Ortberg Jr., All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Frederick Buechner writes, 'The sad things that happened long ago will always remain part of who we are just as the glad and gracious things will too, but instead of being a burden of guilt, recrimination and regret that make us constantly stumble as we go, even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength for the journey that still lies ahead.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“All roads may not lead to God, but they all belong to Him. God can use even the wrong road to bring us to the right place.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“The right kind of sorrow over a wrong decision always creates energy rather than despair. It enables us to learn from past mistakes and grow into great wisdom. Godly sorrow is filled with hope.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“Don't wait for the pain of life to force you through a door that wisdom calls you to choose now.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?

“God loves to give choices because choices develop our character.”
― John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?