Francis Chan Quotes
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
Quotes to Explore
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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Shopping turns me off.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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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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All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.
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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've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
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I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
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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 think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
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When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
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To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
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To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.
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Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.
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Television wasn't prestigious.
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Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
