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Inspirational Quotes by John Ortberg
- Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach…
- Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
- Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
- For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
- We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
- Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
- The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
- The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
- The church is in the hope business.
- The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
- Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
- Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
- Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.
- Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
- We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
- Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
- God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.
- God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
- Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
- You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
- One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
- Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
- The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.
- Make your life about something bigger than your life.
- You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento