Francis Chan Quotes
The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
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The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.
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I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
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At home, my mom and my dad shared equally in the responsibilities of the family and our home and always demonstrated the importance of men and women having an equal role.
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I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.
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I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.
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When you first open Niall [Horan]'s wallet, the first thing you see is a picture of Justin Bieber and a picture of us.
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I think fashion takes itself way too seriously. It's just fashion, people. It's just clothes. It should be frivolous and fun. You're not meant to see it as church and pray to a blouse.
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Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.
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The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.
