John Ortberg Quotes
I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
Quotes to Explore
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
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My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.
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I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
