Francis Chan Quotes

He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving than we do to ask Him. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

Francis Chan

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• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Sanity

• You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Bridge

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Good
  • Real
  • You

• From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Work
  • Career
  • Single

• The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • Dreams

• Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Political

• Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Oxygen
  • Acid
  • Sulfur

• You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Always

• Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Die
  • Fly

• Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • School
  • Fool
  • Educated

• Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

  

  Van Jones
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Believe
  • She
  • War

• Some suppose these parks to have been reminiscences of a tradition of Eden: at any rate a place of the sort was called a paradise. And so, by adopting the word, Christ appears to indicate that at death we pass, as it were, into the wondrous garden that surrounds the Father’s house, but not into the house itself.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Tradition
  • Eden
  • Reminiscenses

• I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Change
  • My Life
  • Drug Dealers

• It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

  

  Nicole Richie
  • Trouble
  • Little
  • Pattern

• Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Justice
  • Constitution
  • Publishing

• Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.

  

  Andrew Linzey
  • Creation
  • Animals
  • Theology

• He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving than we do to ask Him. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Creation
  • Demand
  • Accounts