Francis Chan Quotes

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

Francis Chan

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• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Face
  • Really
  • Coin

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Office
  • Higher

• I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Teach

• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Doing
  • Looking

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • True
  • Peace

• I can make it through the rain,I can stand up once again,on my own, and I know,that I’m strong enough to mend,and every time I feel afraidI hold tighter to my faith,and I live one more dayand I make it through the rain.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Words

• Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Past
  • Mirror

• Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but... Please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Dark
  • Hurt
  • Cutting

• I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Words
  • Fire
  • Darkness

• One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Simple
  • Reason
  • Identity

• If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Values

• Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Desire
  • Simple
  • Order