Francis Chan Quotes

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

I believe God will fight my battles for me.

God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.

We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words

God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.

If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

My heart wants to read the Bible, wants to obey God. When you have Jesus in your life, when you have God in your life, like the thing in this world is not important to your heart. The more important is God in your heart. That's how God changed my life.

Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

I don't have control over everything; God has control over everything and I trust him, so I don't worry.

...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?