"We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness."

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Source : Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.170, David C Cook

Francis Chan

#Christian Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Live Life Quotes

“I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.”
“Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think”

Source : Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.26, Penguin
“Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.”
“Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.”
“To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.”
“Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.”
“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”

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