Francis Chan Quotes

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

Francis Chan

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• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  

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• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

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• As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

  

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• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

  Aristotle
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• I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.

  

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• [Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.

  

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• Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

  

  Andrew Solomon
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• My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.

  

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• Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

  

  T. H. White
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• We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

  

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• A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

  

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• The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

  

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• In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

  

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• The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

  

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• When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Feels
  • Should
  • Self