Francis Chan Quotes
When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
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The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.
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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
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He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
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When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
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Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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With Jesus we have 100 percent security, and no one can ever breach the parameters of His love.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
