Dr Francis Townsend Quotes

#1. Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.

Craig Groeschel

#2. Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team.
(to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for Everton)

Bill Shankly

#3. Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.

Elisabeth Elliot

#4. I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

Elena Ferrante

#5. For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ. But

John Calvin

#6. The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.

Robert Monroe

#7. Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#8. His lithe and lethal grace is hypnotic, too, in the way he moves like a leopard in the African grass, even if it's just striding down a sidewalk. I got sucked into all this, but I can't afford to let it ...

Jasinda Wilder

#9. For not from dust does mischief come,
nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
Human beings beget mischief
as sparks fly upward.

(Job 5:6-7)

Job

#10. I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#11. My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

Chris Evans