Francis Chan Quotes

We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Important
  • Think
  • Christian

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Christian
  • Idea
  • Go

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Book
  • America
  • Christian

• In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • School
  • High
  • Water

• I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Husband

• I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Pretty
  • Christian
  • Principles

• Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Needs
  • Places
  • MGM

• It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Stop

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • God
  • Believe
  • Christian

• If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Christian
  • Failure

• I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Good
  • Christian

• I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Christian

• I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Dark
  • Christian

• I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

  

  Del Shannon
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Life
  • Christian

• I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that Arthur Machen was one of those especially interested in the link between the pagan mysteries and the Christian ones. So, my experience was also a Machenesque experience.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Christian

• Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

  

  William James
  • Religion
  • Needs
  • Firsts

• Out, you tallow-face! You baggage!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Faces
  • Baggage

• The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • May
  • Want
  • Evil

• I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Special

• We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Christian
  • Needs
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