Francis Chan Quotes

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

I am growing and understanding more of who God is in my life and how I am to minister.

I was sixteen when I converted to Islam. Beyond the fraternal aspect, my conversion did not change my life. I was already living by the same principles - being righteous, having values.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

First open your heart, then open your Bible.

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.