Francis Chan Quotes

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.

The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

I felt God's love, and that was a great gift.

I feel that I'm very much in touch with my father's spirit and presence. I feel it, sense it and take much energy and inspiration from that.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

You always have God's undivided attention.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.