Francis Chan Quotes

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

I read the Bible every day, study it, and share with my wife the blessings of faith.

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

We're big fans of the idea that faith without works is dead.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

In college, I joined a team Bible study. God's Word brought me peace and a desire for a relationship with Him.

My wife and I - her more than me - are really strong Christians. Her whole life revolves around studying the Bible, Bible study, after-school Bible class she does for little kids on Wednesdays, teaches Sunday school.

I was in a Bible study, Henry Blackaby's 'Experiencing God,' and I started to experience God as I was reading the pages of this workbook and studying scripture with some friends, and we all just searching to fill that void in our lives.

The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study on certain days. Saturday afternoon was choir practice. I wanted desperately to be a good Christian.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.

Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Application of your faith will change your life

There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.