John Ortberg Quotes
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.
Quotes to Explore
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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The world needs some help.
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I love working the legislative process.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I don't do meetings.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.
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I don’t spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that’s great.
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It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.
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Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.
