Francis Chan Quotes
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
Quotes to Explore
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
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It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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I love writing songs.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.
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God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
