Francis Chan Quotes

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Francis Chan

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Question
  • Students
  • Worship

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Worship

• I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Thought

• The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Man
  • Movement

• Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Together

• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Ambition
  • Worship

• Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.

  

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz
  • God
  • Choices
  • Creation

• We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

  

  David Deida
  • Consciousness
  • Worship
  • Tolerate

• Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Wisdom
  • Worship
  • Leaders

• Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Advice
  • Hero
  • Worship

• There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Worship

• Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Rest
  • Creation

• My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

  

  Dudley Nichols
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Worship

• We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.

  

  Pete Wilson
  • Tears
  • Darkness
  • Worship

• The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Liberty
  • Individual
  • Duty

• We should worship as though the deity were present.

  

  Confucius
  • Present
  • Worship
  • Deity

• I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Experience
  • Worship

• Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Law

• My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Wife
  • Religion
  • Converted

• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  

  William Duncan Silkworth
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Tragedy

• You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Important
  • Teacher
  • Doubt

• Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Worship