Furman Quotes

#1. Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

Anatoly Karpov

#2. Diaper that leaks onto the floorboard of my car while I'm stuck in

Gloria Furman

#3. Eve means "giver of life." I don't think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life.

Gloria Furman

#4. We do not put away our idols so that God will then accept us, but we put away our idols because God has accepted us in Christ

Gloria Furman

#5. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.

Gloria Furman

#6. We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side

Jason Furman

#7. God is a good Father, and he never, ever considers for even one moment letting us remain satisfied with anything less than himself, because he is the most satisfying treasure in the whole wide world.

Gloria Furman

#8. Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

Gloria Furman

#9. The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

Richard Furman

#10. I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

Brad Furman

#11. When I take hold of Jesus by faith as my only hope to please God, God declares that I am justified. Christ's righteousness becomes mine. That's grace.

Gloria Furman

#12. What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances.

Gloria Furman

#13. Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

Jason Furman

#14. Because God is good, we have an infinite number of reasons to praise him in our homes.

Gloria Furman

#15. I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

Brad Furman

#16. When we acknowledge our inability to mother our children apart from the Lord's provision and strength, we honor God. Of course we are not able to do this work of raising children and training them in the instruction of the Lord. That's why we desperately need the Lord!

Gloria Furman

#17. We learned that the body of Christ grows by the Word of Christ, flexing its muscles to serve, stretching out its hands to heal, and dreaming up creative ways to bless one another using the gifts God has given.

Gloria Furman

#18. I tend not to look back. What's done is done, good, bad or indifferent. I'm much more concerned with whatever's coming next.

Simon Furman

#19. I need God's grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.

Gloria Furman

#20. But seeking the temporary reward of the world's approval can distract us from seeking the eternal reward of the Lord's approval.

Gloria Furman

#21. Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

Brad Furman

#22. We need faith to trust that God doesn't merely "know what's best for us," but that he is what's best for us no matter what our circumstances are.

Gloria Furman

#23. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

Ezra Furman

#24. This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34).

Gloria Furman

#25. I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

Ezra Furman

#26. Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid."

Ezra Furman

#27. The gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me.

Gloria Furman

#28. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.

Gloria Furman

#29. The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time.

Gloria Furman

#30. When the mundane looms larger than eternal life, we forget who God is, who we are, and who our children are.

Gloria Furman

#31. The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart.

Gloria Furman

#32. The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ.

Gloria Furman

#33. Problem. My biggest problem is that I live under the illusion that I can do anything I put my mind to while I give lip service to needing God's wisdom. I

Gloria Furman

#34. So how do we know if we've assumed the gospel? Mack Stiles days so aptly that the way to know if we've assumed the gospel is this: you don't hear it anymore. Everyone talks to themselves.

Gloria Furman

#35. The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

Brad Furman

#36. What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus's death on the cross was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

Gloria Furman

#37. The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity.

Gloria Furman

#38. She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

Laura Furman

#39. I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Brad Furman

#40. It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

Laura Furman

#41. I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

Ezra Furman

#42. Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope.

Gloria Furman

#43. I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that I feel passionate about, or that I feel are hopefully at the level of cinematic quality that I feel they should be then I am not really that interested.

Brad Furman

#44. We need to remember that God is no less good to us when we find ourselves in a battle of wills with a preschooler in the checkout line at the grocery store than he was as his Son dragged a cross up a hill that Friday two thousand years ago.

Gloria Furman

#45. The gospel keeps me relating to God on the basis of Jesus's perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements.

Gloria Furman

#46. I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

Ezra Furman

#47. The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables.

Brad Furman

#48. I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

Brad Furman

#49. With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.

Brad Furman

#50. I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

Ezra Furman

#51. Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Laura Furman

#52. The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her.

Gloria Furman

#53. If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.

Gloria Furman

#54. Go out to all the world and tell the good news.

Kathleen Furman

#55. God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

Gloria Furman

#56. We ought to consider our home managing as the creation of a living organism that nurtures the peace of Christ and the righteousness of God.

Gloria Furman

#57. When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.

Gloria Furman

#58. Preaching the gospel to myself each day is the best way to remind myself that my life in Christ is the prevailing, permanent reality in my life.

Gloria Furman

#59. Our ministries exist not simply for the purpose of helping people live well now; our ministries, like our whole lives, must aim for the end, when we'll see Jesus face-to-face. The

Gloria Furman

#60. Puritan Thomas Watson said, "Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." I think Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers, who preached on "the expulsive power of a new affection," would have added: Until Christ be sweet, sin will not be bitter.

Gloria Furman

#61. I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

Ezra Furman

#62. A motley crew of racist, sin-sick, spiritual zombies is now one body under Christ. And individually they are new creations walking in humility, gentleness, and patience

Gloria Furman

#63. If we aren't clear on what the Christian gospel is, then what is at stake is not merely a harmless misunderstanding but eternal life and death.

Gloria Furman

#64. Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.

Gloria Furman

#65. For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.

Gloria Furman

#66. No mother's nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through.

Gloria Furman

#67. I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

Brad Furman

#68. I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.

Ezra Furman

#69. The course of this world is pervasive, keeping the captives quiet with the morphine of temporary pleasure at the expense of their eternal souls.

Gloria Furman

#70. For some people the remark, "You're just like your mother [or father]," is enough to pick a fight. For a Christian, the greatest testimony of God's grace in our lives is the observation, "You're just like your Father.

Gloria Furman

#71. At the end of every day - chaotic and mundane alike - motherhood is about the adoration and enjoyment of our great God. The

Gloria Furman

#72. Gifts are given by God and empowered by God to glorify God.

Gloria Furman

#73. I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.

Jason Furman

#74. All around the world, God is giving and sustaining life to the praise of his grace. His mercy is new every morning, and it's always morning somewhere.

Gloria Furman

#75. Because of the gospel
the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners
mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.

Gloria Furman

#76. What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how to play this game. That is a big problem I think that exists in the education on how to be a filmmaker or how to make movies.

Brad Furman

#77. Just the other day I witnessed a disagreement between a waiter and a customer over whether the coffee he served her was a cappuccino or a latte.

Gloria Furman

#78. I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

Brad Furman

#79. I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".

Ezra Furman

#80. Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

Gloria Furman

#81. Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

Brad Furman

#82. What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

Ezra Furman

#83. For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.

Laura Furman

#84. It is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies

Gloria Furman

#85. It is quite easy to allow the gospel to become overshadowed by our own efforts to grow spiritually. Spiritual disciplines serve as gateways to cherishing the gospel, not as substitutes for the gospel.

Gloria Furman

#86. I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

Ezra Furman

#87. God's irresistible grace binds our wandering hearts to himself and frees us to love him back and overflow in love to our neighbors.

Gloria Furman

#88. God can use the ordinary moments in your life to glorify himself by conforming you into the image of his Son. That is precisely what he intends to do.

Gloria Furman