Francis Chan Quotes

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

But the devil wants to turn religion into arguments and discussions. He wants reasoning to replace spirit and argument to replace practices, thus the religious life becomes mere reasoning as if Christianity were a philosophy which is studied and analyzed

I'd, you know, I'd believed in God my whole life. And then started thinking about it. I was like, 'Am I living like - this stuff I'm reading - am living like we are called to live; to put Christ first, and to live for Christ? Maybe I'm not living like I'm supposed to.'

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.

Jesus modeled a purpose-driven life, and he taught others how to live it, too. That was the "work" that brought glory to God.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

Nobody wants to have meaninglessness in their lives. You probably see a lot of people living their lives that don't have a whole lot of meaning that you can perceive, and you don't want that for yourself.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.