Top 20 Ortlund's Quotes
#1. In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.
Anne Ortlund
#2. A church can offer living and palpable proof that the gospel makes a real difference for real people living in the real world.
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#3. The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.
Graeme Goldsworthy
#4. Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
Sam Francis
#5. You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
Aleister Crowley
#6. When the doctrine is clear and the culture is beautiful, that church will be powerful. But there are no shortcuts to getting there. Without the doctrine, the culture will be weak. Without the culture, the doctrine will seem pointless.
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#8. It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.
Anne Ortlund
#9. Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.
Jani Ortlund
#10. The need of our times is nothing less than the re-Christianization of our churches, according to the gospel alone, in both doctrine and culture, by Christ himself
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#11. You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate.
Rick Riordan
#12. In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
Rita Mae Brown
#13. Or as my friend Ray Ortlund has been known to say, "In Acts, they preached and awe came down. You can't put that in your worship order. 10 a.m.: awe comes down.
Jared C. Wilson
#14. Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#15. Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.
Candace Bushnell
#16. When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.
Jani Ortlund
#17. Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get.
Anne Ortlund
#18. Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.
Anne Ortlund
