Francis Chan Quotes

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

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• We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • May
  • Mother
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• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• You never grow out of high school sadly.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • School
  • High
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• There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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  • Game
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• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Good
  • Understand

• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
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  • Women
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• I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Doing
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• If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Good
  • Better
  • Committee

• The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Book

• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God
  • May

• Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • War
  • Violence

• Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

  

  James Gleick
  • People
  • Technology

• The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Faith
  • Choices
  • Satan

• Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.

  

  Ato Boldon
  • Life
  • Athlete

• I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

  

  Jessie Buckley

• Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • God
  • Small
  • Brain

• I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

  

  Craig Kilborn

• Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

  

  Craig Bierko
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Movie

• Deus seu Natura

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• I wanted something ephemeral, that would pass like a falling star and, most importantly, that would be impossible for museums to reabsorb. I didn't want it to be 'museumised'. The work had to pass by, make people dream and talk, and that would be all, the next day nothing would be left, everything would go back to the garbage bins.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • People
  • Work
  • Dream

• I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Done

• You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Prayer
  • Helping

• Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

  

  Francis Chan
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