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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It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.
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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 believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.
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I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
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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.
