Francis Chan Quotes

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

Francis Chan

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Money
  • Act

• In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Courage
  • Leadership
  • South

• I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Love
  • Football
  • Finish

• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Shopping turns me off.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Me
  • Shopping
  • Off

• Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Money
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Men
  • Long

• All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Thinking

• I'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Fighting

• I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

  

  Donna Reed

• I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

  

  Emma Watson

• At home, my mom and my dad shared equally in the responsibilities of the family and our home and always demonstrated the importance of men and women having an equal role.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Work
  • Children
  • Parents

• The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

  

  Max Aaron
  • Gold

• Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.

  

  Lauren Miller
  • Writing
  • Emotional
  • Weird

• Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Mindset
  • Consumers