John Ortberg Quotes
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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It was a team effort. We did everything that we needed for the win. You can't put it on one thing. We've been doing a lot of things well. We're playing well together. We're defending. We're doing a lot of positive things out there. We're putting ourselves in a (position) to win. We're giving ourselves a chance every night, just playing well defensively. We feel like every night we can score 100 points, but we've got to stop people.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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'My beautiful Grandmother - Caroline Garlinghouse - came from Pittsburgh - my mother's mother. I never met her but I have followed many of her ideas - through my mother - And it has given me a warm spot in my heart for your city...My grandmother's brother, Fred Garlinghouse, lived in Pittsburgh, was an engineer and apparently worked for Jones & Laughlin.'
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
