Francis Chan Quotes

Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has certain positions. Religion is then one more ideology among others. Religion is about God. Religion begins with a relationship to God, not a relationship to an idea. It is God who is an actor, not just individuals who have certain beliefs who are actors. God is an actor.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.