Francis Chan Quotes
...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
Quotes to Explore
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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I'm such a foodie.
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I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
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I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
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Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
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This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.
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There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.
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Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
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If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.
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At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.
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...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
