Francis Chan Quotes

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

Francis Chan

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• Crazy
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• If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Want
  • Giving
  • You

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Idea

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Cute

• Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Nice
  • Wish

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Psychology

• I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Career

• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Believe
  • Long

• I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Fun
  • Challenge

• After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Up

• A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Song

• We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • America
  • Together
  • Honor

• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  

  Linda Tripp
  • House

• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Fishing

• I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • She
  • Strong
  • Brave

• Martin Luther King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • King

• A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

  

  Jane Jacobs

• Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Energy

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Song
  • Church
  • Crazy