Francis Chan Quotes

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

Leave the rest to the gods.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.

Accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Do your duty and leave the rest to God.

The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.

God doesn't make mistakes.

Sometimes, the plans in your heart aren't God's plan.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

I just always said I'm going to work my hardest and whatever God has meant is going to happen when God lets it.

God doesn't make mistakes.

It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.

Do your best and leave the rest to God.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.