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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All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.
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There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.
