Francis Chan Quotes

[W]e are here to love. Not much else matters.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

God wants us to pursue certain actions, but as we put God's commands into action, our motivation makes all the difference.

Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of.

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

The actions driven by fear and guilt are not an antidote to lukewarm, selfish, comfortable living. I hope you realize that the answer is love.

But it isn't up to us, mostly because none of us are good.

I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.

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.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.

He persists in loving us with unending, outrageous love.

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

There's a difference, in other words, between God's values that please Him (moral will) and those events that He causes to happen (decreed will).15

There can never be intimacy if [someone] is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy.

Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.

We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.

The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love (v. 6).

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

...no worship is better than apathetic worship.

No matter what religious tradition you come from, you likely carry baggage and harbor stereotypes when it comes to the Holy Spirit. It's

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

The greatest good on this earth is God

The fact is, He just wasn't interested in those who fake it.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.

When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

Psalm 115:3 reveals, "Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.

Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

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

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

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving of ourselves because we were made to do these things.

It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.

Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be failure but of succeeding at things that don't really matter.

Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.

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

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

We are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

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

It's not about figuring out all of the mysteries of God, but embracing Him and cherishing Him - even when He doesn't make perfect sense to us.

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives and keep on as we did before.

It is impossible to make disciples aside from the church of Jesus Christ.

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?

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

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

God never breaks His promises.

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.

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

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

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

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

Discipleship is all about living life together rather than just one structured meeting per week.

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

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

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

The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.

Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?

What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

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

In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

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

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

Jesus came humbly as a servant, but He never begs us to give Him some small part of ourselves. He commands everything from His followers.

Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

[I]t's impossible to please God in any other way that wholehearted surrender...

In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.

If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.

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.

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

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

We are God's creations, living in God's earth, placed within God's plan of redemption.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

What are you doing right now that requires faith?

He measures our lives by how we love.

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10]

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

A life in which people know that our accomplishments could not have been attained by our own power. A life that brings glory to God in heaven.4

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

The enemy just hates our prayers.

Let's pray that God would empower us so radically that we would get no glory. That people would see our works and glorify God.

. . . nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God;

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

Chan is drawn to his coauthor because he says they have, "different gifts but similar convictions".

This relationship [your relationship with God] is far more critical than your marriage. And it's everlasting.

We still need to be reminded that God is bigger than we think. We need to be awed by His unfathomable love for us.

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

While hell can be a paralyzing doctrine, it can also be an energizing one, for it magnifies the beauty of the cross.

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?