Francis Chan Quotes

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.

Your soul is between you and God.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

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.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

God comes to you disguised as your life.

How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.