Anne Ortlund Quotes
But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by yourself before God, is what makes the real you. Nothing on the exterior can touch or change that precious inner sanctuary - your heart, His dwelling place - unless you let it. And God, who loves you very much, has tailor made all your outer life - your circumstances, your relationships - to pressure you into becoming that beautiful woman He's planned for you to be.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.
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I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
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Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by yourself before God, is what makes the real you. Nothing on the exterior can touch or change that precious inner sanctuary - your heart, His dwelling place - unless you let it. And God, who loves you very much, has tailor made all your outer life - your circumstances, your relationships - to pressure you into becoming that beautiful woman He's planned for you to be.
