Francis Chan Quotes

...when we love God, we naturally run to Him-frequently and zealously. Jesus didn't command that we have a regular time with Him each day. Rather, He tells us to 'love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' He called this the 'first and greatest commandment' (Matt. 22:37-38). The results are intimate prayer and study of His Word. Our motivation changes from guilt to love.

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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • May
  • Talent
  • Ability

• That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • See
  • Kissing

• I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Today
  • Girl
  • Gun

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Bad
  • Political
  • Results

• They say: 'In the long run truth will triumph;' but it is untrue.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Long
  • Truth

• In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.

  

  James Gleick

• At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.

  

  James Comey

• I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Black

• I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Good
  • She
  • Character

• That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Work

• I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

  

  Bobby Darin

• I never lost my appetite for acting.

  

  Eli Wallach
  • Lost

• I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Life
  • Stress

• I always excelled in sports, so I knew I had advantages there. That really gave me, like, confidence and self-esteem.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.

  

  Ajith Kumar

• Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Reading
  • Constitution
  • Aspiration

• As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

  

  John McWhorter

• ...when we love God, we naturally run to Him-frequently and zealously. Jesus didn't command that we have a regular time with Him each day. Rather, He tells us to 'love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' He called this the 'first and greatest commandment' (Matt. 22:37-38). The results are intimate prayer and study of His Word. Our motivation changes from guilt to love.

  

  Francis Chan