Francis Chan

“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.”

“We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.”

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

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

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

“God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.”

“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.”

“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!”

“‎"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?”

“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.”

“Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.)”

“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.'”

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

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

“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?”

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