Francis Chan Quotes

It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

Francis Chan

• Children
• Heart
• Today
• Spirit
• Easy
• Circumstances
• Praying
• Excuse
• Surrender
• Spouse

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Someone

• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Funny

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Together
  • Strong
  • Team

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Terrific

• I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Ideas

• Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Career
  • Trust

• Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Treat
  • Wait

• First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Soldiers

• She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ('Cue the tears!'). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Real
  • She

• …all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Trying

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• And both were young, and one was beautiful.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Beautiful

• I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Family
  • Sing
  • Everybody

• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Lying

• Love shook my heart Like the wind on the mountain Troubling the oak-trees

  

  Sappho
  • Heart
  • Mountain

• Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Life
  • Job

• It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Today