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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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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.
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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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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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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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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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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.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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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.
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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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I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
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I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
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People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.
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The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.
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My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
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If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.
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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.
