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.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
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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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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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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 isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
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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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I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.
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Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.
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Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground
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My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.
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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.
