Francis Chan Quotes

I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.

Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

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.

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

Do you want to see God more than you desire security?

The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.

A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.

Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?”

The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.

To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.

People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.

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.

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

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!

You and I are not allowed to tell Him how much He can hate it (sin).

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.