Francis Chan Quotes

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Christ asked for everything he got.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Faith without works is dead.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.