Francis Chan Quotes

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.

I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.

I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.