John Ortberg Quotes
Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.
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Whether you're a man or a woman, life can be very, very difficult and confusing and desperate, and it's life-enhancing to know that somehow, there is a way through it.
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That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.
