Ordway Quotes

#1. Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

Francis J. Beckwith

#2. Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.

Melissa Ordway

#3. It is no light matter to meet God after having denied Him all one's life.

Holly Ordway

#4. In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.

Melissa Ordway

#5. UCLA psychology professor emeritus Albert Mehrabian discovered that face-to-face communication can be broken down into three components: words, tone of voice, and body language.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

Dave Mearns

#7. I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.

Melissa Ordway

#8. Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

Ordway Tead

#9. Some smart folk wish to love Jesus, but prefer to ignore his bride, the Church. This goes no better for these rude people than it does when any loving husband meets a boor who condescends, ignores, or insults his beloved.

Holly Ordway

#10. The facts themselves do not compel belief. God will not force us to trust Him. God gives us the ability to respond and graciously allows us to choose how we will use the freedom that He gave us.

Holly Ordway

#11. All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.

Ordway Tead

#12. Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Robert Moses

#13. I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

Melissa Ordway

#14. I'll always be a Georgia girl at heart, but I live in Los Angeles full time. My parents still live in Georgia, so I go home as often as I can.

Melissa Ordway

#15. There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.

Donna Tartt

#16. I had once thought that Christianity was a soft, wish-fulfillment religion. Now I saw that it was entirely the opposite.

Holly Ordway

#17. Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

Melissa Ordway

#18. Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both aspects of the world. Of both beauty and pain.

Holly Ordway

#19. It wasn't the promise of peace, or joy, or salvation that brought me to Christ, but the promise of truth.

Holly Ordway

#20. Yet any time I opened up a book of medieval art, or walked into the Renaissance galleries in a museum, I was confronted with Mary.

Holly Ordway

#21. More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

Ordway Tead

#22. I did an episode of 'Entourage.' I played Morgan - I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.

Melissa Ordway

#23. '17 Again' was one of the best times of my life. The whole cast was really close. We were like a family. When we weren't working, we'd all hang out. It was a great group of people.

Melissa Ordway

#24. You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

Holly Ordway

#25. I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.

Melissa Ordway

#26. Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

John Green

#27. I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

Melissa Ordway

#28. Until I close my eyes to this earth for the last time, I will always be with you, happy to repay for the rest of my life the friendship and encouragement you have shown me since the day we met.

Steven F. Freeman

#29. Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith ... it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

Holly Ordway

#30. If we, who are finite, contingent, created beings, have got God completely figured out, it makes it seem likely that we invented him ... If I am ever completely satisfied with my understanding of who God is and how he operates in the world, I am in danger of ceasing to seek Him.

Holly Ordway

#31. Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Ordway Tead