Francis Chan Quotes
Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
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Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
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Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
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Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.
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I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.
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Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
