Francis Chan Quotes

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

Even though I am playing against others, and it is important to get there and win, I believe that Jesus is much more important than all of that.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

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.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

Their throats were bare for God.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16).

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.