Francis Chan Quotes

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Francis Chan

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• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Myself
  • Religion
  • Thought

• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Need
  • Far

• I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Collaboration

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Done
  • Bad

• If you can't control your tweeting habits, then stop tweeting. Go seek therapy.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Control
  • Stop

• I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.

  

  James Gray
  • Believe
  • Friend
  • Star

• The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

  

  James Gray
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Friend

• I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Learning

• I'm very close with my mom.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Mom

• If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Road
  • Travel

• Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

  

  David Antin
  • Real
  • Disney

• In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Family
  • Friends

• Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Humility
  • Humble

• It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I'm very worried about the future of separation of church and state: will it survive in a meaningful way? I'll tell you, there are a very large number of people throughout this country whose values, statements, and conduct appear to place them in some alternate universe governed by some constitution they apparently found while cleaning out their sock drawer. It is not the American “living” Constitution that reflects, increasingly, the search for individual freedom and justice: in other words, what the Constitution's purpose is.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Church
  • Justice
  • Constitution

• I respect my fans.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Respect

• I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Job

• ...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Incomplete
  • Incorrect