Francis Chan Quotes

Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

Francis Chan

• Communication
• Intimacy
• Refusal

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• Honest communication is a rare thing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Communication
  • Honest
  • Rare

• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Important
  • Actor
  • Communication

• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Great
  • Day

• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Theory
  • Philosophical

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Great
  • Father
  • Communication

• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Laugh
  • Intimacy

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Important
  • Relationship
  • Trust

• Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Death
  • End
  • Perspective

• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Music
  • Communication

• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mind
  • Communication
  • Genius

• I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd like to kiss her on-screen as we do it at home, too. If we get paid for it, that's even better.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Home
  • Kiss
  • Intimacy

• In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Reality
  • Past

• What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Want
  • You
  • Will

• I have nice watches. I don't set them.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Nice

• A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Survival

• We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • Up
  • Freedom

• Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Communication
  • Intimacy
  • Refusal