Francis Chan Quotes
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption the cross, even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
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We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
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We won't apologise for our way of life, nor will we weaver in its defence, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken, you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption the cross, even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
