Francis Chan Quotes

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

Francis Chan

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• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Work
  • Real
  • War

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Makeup
  • Too Much
  • Skin

• The law is cruel.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Cruel

• Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Home
  • Fire
  • Histories

• I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Good
  • Things
  • Happen

• The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Parents
  • Choices
  • Choice

• Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Neck
  • Rent
  • Vein

• Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Light
  • Hair
  • I Feel

• Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Earth

• A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christ
  • Grace
  • Laws

• If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Faculties
  • Rock Music
  • Terrible Thing

• O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • Love
  • Evil

• Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Grace
  • Salvation
  • Favors