Francis Chan Quotes

It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.

Francis Chan

• Proud
• Church
• Selfish
• Atheism
• Prosperity
• Agnosticism
• Pantheism

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
  • First
  • Curiosity
  • Patient

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Women
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Office

• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Better

• Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Violence

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• Tread the track of life with utmost caution. But let this not deter you from taking giant leaps towards your goals. Excessive caution may reduce your speed to move ahead in life.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Life
  • May
  • Goals

• How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Believe
  • Picture
  • English

• But I thought love would more than prevail.

  

  David Gest

• Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Art
  • Together

• You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Good
  • Team

• My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my 'Mad Men' routine. If I'm in the series of work, it's hard to see myself without eyelashes every day.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Work
  • Men
  • Pretty

• Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Up
  • Humanity

• It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • America
  • Listening

• It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

  

  Lori Loughlin
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Fashion

• The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Music
  • God
  • Paradise

• on reacting to racism I don't wanna be the better person. I don't wanna rise above it. I do wanna sink down to their level. I am not gonna turn the other cheek. 'I'mma gonna show you what cheek I'mma turn, OK!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Racism

• When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'

  

  Dean Winters
  • Car
  • Snow
  • Bike

• I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Words
  • Proud

• It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Proud
  • Church
  • Selfish