Francis Chan Quotes

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.

We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

I didn’t come here to seek a power or to get a chairmanship. I wanted to do what I think my Lord wants me to do.

I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out.

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

I really believe that God has a purpose for everything that I do.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

God can dream a better dream for you than you can!

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan