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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There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.
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If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
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The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.
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The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment.
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Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
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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.
