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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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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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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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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Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.
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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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We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'
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Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.
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Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.
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Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss.
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Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [...] "I called the police as I was running to the well. I'm sure they're coming." "Did they say they were coming?" Kami asked suspiciously. "Or did you shout, 'Kami's in the well!' before jumping in the well too, thus loosing your phone and making sure the police think it was some kids playing a dumb joke?" Jared paused. [...] "Alternate plan," Jared said. "Do you have a very intelligent collie who might communicate through a system of barks to your parents that little Kami is in the well?
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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.
