Francis Chan Quotes
-
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
-
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!
-
If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.
-
Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
-
My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
-
Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
-
Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.
-
...you will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.
-
People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.
-
With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
-
What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
-
We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
-
I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?
-
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
-
When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'
-
We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
-
We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
-
Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
-
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
-
Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
-
I sometimes struggle with how to properly respond to God’s magnitude in a world bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him. But know this: God will not be tolerated. He instructs us to worship and fear Him.
-
...when we are loving, we can't sin.
-
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
-
Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.