John Ortberg Quotes
Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should - it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.
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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
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Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
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Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.
