Francis Chan Quotes
The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
Quotes to Explore
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I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
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It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
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A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
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Whenever someone is subjected to the control of others, it is essential for them to understand the people in power. In most organizations, workers understand the managers much better than the managers understand the workers.
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I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.
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The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.
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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?
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The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
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The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
