Francis Chan Quotes

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.

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.'

Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord, O Nanak.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.

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

Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough faith to trust in his grace and to trust in his sovereign and perfect plan. I had to submit my will, my desires, my dreams — give it all up to God and say, “Look, I am going to give my best effort, go on the court and play every day for you, and I'm going to let you take care of the rest.