Francis Chan Quotes

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down next to my wife, and my hair started popping and uncurling all on its own - ping, ping, ping, ping! I knew that it was God telling me to stay on the righteous path so he could one day pull me up to be there with him.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

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.