Francis Chan Quotes

God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

The enemy just hates our prayers.

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

...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)?

I don't want to keep crawling when i have the ability to fly.

I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

Show true religion, cause words don't relieve

When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful...and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words of the Bible literally.

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

...when we are loving, we can't sin.

...you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

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?

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

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.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are.

You must determine your goal. What matters most? Winning arguments? Or resembling Christ? Even in the heat of an argument we should be asking ourselves if we are acting like Christ.

And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I’ve never tried this, and I don’t recommend it.)

The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts less like Christ.

More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself.

The verses in the Bible are more than good teachings, they possess power.

What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.