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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• Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
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• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
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• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
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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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Self

• I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

  

  Sam Childers
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• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
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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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• 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.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Party
  • Makeup
  • Self

• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Emotional
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• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
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• When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Peace
  • Present
  • Always

• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Self
  • Anything
  • Serve

• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Should

• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Should
  • Rule

• 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.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Running
  • Feels
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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.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Work
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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
  • Real
  • True
  • Feels

• 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.

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Interesting
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• It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Person

• God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Creates

• It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.

  

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Soul

• People with rights are infinitely in a better position than people who have no rights.

  

  Eliseo Medina
  • People
  • Position
  • Rights

• 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