Francis Chan Quotes

There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

Francis Chan

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• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Body

• And our dreams are who we are.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dreams
  • Our
  • Our Dreams

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • History
  • Career
  • Over

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Never

• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Shy

• It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Free
  • Energy
  • Food

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

  

  Jessica Lynch
  • Why
  • War
  • Crazy

• With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Vision

• Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Universe
  • King

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Atmosphere

• There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Universe
  • Made
  • Laughter