Francis Chan Quotes

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

Francis Chan

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• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Aid
  • Foreign Aid

• The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mind
  • American
  • Landscape

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Careful
  • Spending
  • Sale

• I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Money
  • Moving
  • Talent

• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• 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

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Art
  • May
  • Interesting

• I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Time
  • Greed

• Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is what we're going to do today, shoop shoop shoop shoop,' and everybody's minds were in the same direction.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Work
  • Today

• I saw so many radically different versions of Iraq. It would have been difficult for me to come back and think, 'This is the Iraq experience.'

  

  Phil Klay
  • Different
  • Experience

• I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

  

  Phillip Phillips

• Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Work
  • Help
  • Teacher

• There are too few people working in the area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, too little funding, too many problems, and too little time.

  

  Peter C. Doherty
  • People
  • Time

• Changing people's habits is very expensive.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • People
  • Changing
  • Habits

• Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Great
  • Suffering

• But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

  

  Augusten Burroughs

• Sandeep Jauhar specializes in peeling back the veneer, revealing the discomfiting truths of today’s medical world. He is unafraid to dig deeply and honestly, both within himself and within the medical profession. Doctored raises critical questions that twenty-first-century medicine must answer if it is to meet the needs of its patients as well as of its practitioners.

  

  Danielle Ofri
  • World
  • Medical
  • Patient

• Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men.

  

  Charlemagne
  • Men
  • Church

• We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Needs
  • Expression