Francis Chan Quotes
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?
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One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
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Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
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I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.
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The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
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The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.
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In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.
