Francis Chan Quotes
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
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I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...
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Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.
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Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.
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The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
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Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
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I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.
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I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
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It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
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Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.
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I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
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One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.
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You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.
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I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it. I believe Paul's got everything he ever had, but I lost a lot of mine.
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Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.
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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
