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.

John Ortberg

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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.

  

  Adam Driver
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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.

  

  Eden Hazard
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  • Best
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• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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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.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
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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.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
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• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
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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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Movie
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• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim 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.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Done
  • Truth
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• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Everything
  • Without
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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.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Work
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• An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
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• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

  

  Padgett Powell
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• Lemony Snicket

  

  Daniel Handler

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Success
  • Community
  • Change

• I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Community
  • Responsibility
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Ghetto