Francis Chan Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.
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I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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When there has been a problem in your marriage, you cannot forever go on thinking, 'I am the most terrible person in the world and he is the most wonderful person.' You cannot live in a marriage that is unequal, because after a while, you are just worn out.
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.
