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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After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
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I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
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Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.
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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.
