John Ortberg Quotes
Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.
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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
