Francis Chan Quotes (120) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Francis Chan (August 31, 1967) is an American preacher. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, a church he and his wife started in 1994. He is also the Founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College and author of the best-selling books, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God, which came out in 2009, and most recently, You and Me Forever: Marriage In Light of Eternity, which came out in 2014. He released his second book Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit in August 2009. His other works include Erasing Hell in 2011, Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples in 2012, and the Basic Series by Francis Chan, a DVD series started in 2010. He also sits on the board of directors of Children’s Hunger Fund and World Impac See website for more info - http://www.crazylove.org/
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I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
― Francis Chan
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
― Francis Chan
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
― Francis Chan
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
― Francis Chan
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.
― Francis Chan
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
― Francis Chan
But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
― Francis Chan
Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people tend to choose what is popular over what is right. Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want to be saved from the penalty of their sin. Lukewarm people rarely share their faith with their neighbors, coworkers, or friends. Lukewarm people are thankful for their luxuries and comforts, and rarely consider trying to give as much as possible to the poor.
― Francis Chan
Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
― Francis Chan
The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
― Francis Chan
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.
― Francis Chan
I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
― Francis Chan
Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.
― Francis Chan
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.
― Francis Chan
Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you into the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be…
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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.
― Francis Chan
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
― Francis Chan
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
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When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.
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People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't put it on for God; He is their safe place, where they can be at peace.
― Francis Chan
When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.
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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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When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
― Francis Chan
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.
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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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We don't get to decide who God is.
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I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
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"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they're not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].
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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.
― Francis Chan
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
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The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
― Francis Chan
The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.
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A disciple is a disciple maker.
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I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself
― Francis Chan
Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
― Francis Chan
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
― Francis Chan
Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
― Francis Chan
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
― Francis Chan
The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.
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If a guy were dating my daughter but didn't want to spend the gas money to come pick her up or refused to buy her dinner because it cost too much, I would question whether he were really in love with her In the same way, I question whether many American churchgoers are really in love with God because they are so hesitant to do anything for Him." Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
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The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
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Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.
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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
― Francis Chan
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.
― Francis Chan
Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin. They don't genuinely hate sin and aren't truly sorry for it; they're merely sorry because God is going to punish them. Lukewarm people don't really believe that this new life Jesus offers is better than the old sinful one.
― Francis Chan
My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.
― Francis Chan
God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
― Francis Chan
A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
― Francis Chan
The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.
― Francis Chan
In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.
― Francis Chan
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
― Francis Chan
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.
― Francis Chan
Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
― Francis Chan
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. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.
― Francis Chan
He measures our lives by how we love.
― Francis Chan
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.
― Francis Chan
We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
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When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.
― Francis Chan
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
― Francis Chan
The greatest good on this earth is God
― Francis Chan
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.
― Francis Chan
As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.
― Francis Chan
There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
― Francis Chan
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
― Francis Chan
The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
― Francis Chan
I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.
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When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from
the tone of our culture.
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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.
― Francis Chan
God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
― Francis Chan
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
― Francis Chan
For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.
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It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
― Francis Chan
It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.
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Worry implies that we don't quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives.
― Francis Chan
I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.
― Francis Chan
Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle with believing it at times. Thank You for rescuing me from myself and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.
― Francis Chan
True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity
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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.
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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.
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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.
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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.
― Francis Chan
Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.
― Francis Chan
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.
― Francis Chan
God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives.
Francis Chan
As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment
― Francis Chan
James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology; He wants us to know and love Him.
― Francis Chan
When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.
― Francis Chan
We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.
― Francis Chan
What are you doing right now that requires faith?
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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?
― Francis Chan
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
― Francis Chan
Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.
― Francis Chan
True love requires sacrifice.
― Francis Chan
A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the best thing he can do is be faithful to his Savior in every aspect of his life, continually saying "Thank You!" to God. An obsessed person knows there can never be intimacy if he is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy. He revels in his role as a child and friend of God.
― Francis Chan
I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle,
― Francis Chan
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Are you willing to say to God that He can have whatever He wants? Do you believe that whole hearted commitment to Him is more important than any other thing or person in your life? Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter; unless it is about loving God and loving the people He has made?
― Francis Chan
People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.
― Francis Chan
Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.
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The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.
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