John Ortberg Quotes
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
Quotes to Explore
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.
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'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.
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Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
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No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please...As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.
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Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
