Francis Chan Quotes

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.

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

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

The Church, by the internal law of her being, cannot renounce her calling to enlighten, to transform the whole human life, to imbue it with her rays

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

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

Being filled with the Spirit is shown to have had a dynamic and energizing effect or power in the New Testament and in the lives of millions of people since then.

I no longer believe that I'm going to be struck down by a punishing God.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.