Ray Ortlund Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

Chris Hadfield

#4. Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#5. If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

David Ogilvy

#6. He progressed not by always making right decisions but by responding appropriately to wrong ones.

Brennan Manning

#7. Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

Henry A. Kissinger

#8. Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

Publilius Syrus

#9. When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

Laura Bush

#10. The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

Sigmund Freud

#11. Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

Jason Fuchs

#12. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

Walter Scott

#13. Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

Paul Washer