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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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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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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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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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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.
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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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Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them.
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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.
