Francis Chan Quotes

The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.

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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
  • Singing
  • Better
  • Meet

• I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hurt
  • Sorry
  • Blame

• If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

  

  Frederick Delius
  • Bad
  • Musician
  • Advance

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friendship
  • Distance
  • Break

• 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
  • Books
  • Dancing
  • Mountains

• I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Loss
  • Conceive
  • Self-respect

• 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
  • Long
  • Together
  • Wish

• 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
  • God
  • King
  • Spring

• 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
  • Power
  • Control
  • Workers

• 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
  • Country
  • Stuff

• A disciple is a disciple maker.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Makers
  • Disciple

• All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Truth
  • Wish

• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Facts
  • Names

• My religion has no geographical limits.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Limits
  • Geographical

• The garden is the place I go for refuge and shelter, not the house. In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals; but out there blessings crowd round me at every step -- it is there that I am sorry for the unkindness in me, for those selfish thoughts that are so much worse than they feel; it is there that all my sins and silliness are forgiven, there that I feel protected and at home, and every flower and weed is a friend and every tree a lover. When I have been vexed I run to them for comfort, and when I have been angry without just cause, it is there I find absolution. Did ever a woman have so many friends? And always the same, always ready to welcome me and fill me with cheerful thoughts. Happy children of a common Father, why should I, their own sister, be less content and joyous than they?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Angry

• The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Instruction
  • Disciple