Francis Chan Quotes

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

Francis Chan

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• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

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

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • May
  • Mother
  • Earth

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • You
  • Battle
  • Wrinkles

• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • School
  • Man

• I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Songs
  • Concerned

• I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Family
  • House

• Since government supposedly can do whatever it sets out to do, the president should sign an executive order outlawing death. However, as with all other laws, Congress should be exempt.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Death

• No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.

  

  Arthur Helps

• Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Money

• It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Rest

• They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Up
  • World

• 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

• The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

  

  Chord Overstreet

• It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.

  

  David Crystal
  • Long
  • Community

• Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Age

• Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Country
  • Business
  • Community

• Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Powerful

• My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

• There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated - in short, from the perspective of those who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • World
  • Great
  • Experience

• I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Religious

• A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Christian
  • Passionate
  • Obsessed