Francis Chan Quotes
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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.
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With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.
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...our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.
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The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.
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I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.
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Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.
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We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
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Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
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God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.
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It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
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I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.
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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
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The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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What evidence do you have that you know Jesus?
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As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?