Francis Chan Quotes
The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
Francis Chan
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."
Stevie Wonder
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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.
Christina Aguilera
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If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
Frederick Delius
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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.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
Aristotle
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
William Godwin
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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!
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Al Siebert
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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.
John Prine
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The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner—and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again!
Bree Despain
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
Aristotle
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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?
Eudora Welty
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Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of the Christian religion? The writings of those who preach the religion have from the very beginning insisted that it is to be proved by experience. If a man is drawn towards honour and courage and endurance, justice, mercy, and charity, let him follow the way of Christ and find out for himself. No findings in science hinder him in that way.
William Henry Bragg
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Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.
Confucius
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The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
Francis Chan
