Gerlinde Ortner Quotes & Sayings

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise. — Chris Van Allsburg

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional. — Robyn Carr

Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within them drove their behavior. — Dean Koontz

Happy is he who hath one desire, if that one desire be set on Christ, though it may not yet have been realized. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I used to feel so far from God, like I had to work my way back to Him after periods of inconsistency ... it's not about trying harder. it's about turning sooner. It's about confessing sin and turning back to God's gift of grace. Grace is God's "undeserved favor." We don't have to earn it, and we cannot lose it when we act undeserving. — Renee Swope

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with. — Marat Safin

All too often departmental heads were more concerned with maintaining control than encouraging cross-departmental cooperation. — Anonymous

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. — Steven Spielberg

Here we received the first blows: and it was so new and senseless that we felt no pain, neither in body nor in spirit. Only a profound amazement: how can one hit a man without anger? — Primo Levi