Francis Chan Quotes

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

I know that I received so much help from God to become that kind of person that I wanted to be. That's honestly the message that I think is in a lot of my songs.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.