Francis Chan Quotes

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

I have a big heart.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.

I actually really love people.

Giving is the most self-satisfying thing you can ever do.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.