Francis Chan Quotes

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

I love Jesus. I just don't like the Christians who don't believe in what he says.

As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

How wonderful it is to be surprised by God’s call, to embrace his word, and to walk in the footsteps of Jesus... Your life will become richer and more joyful each day!

Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective "Christian".

A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.

We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!

The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church, others are disciples of the minister, and a third sort are disciples of their own thoughts; he is the wise man who sits at Jesus' feet and learns of Him, with the resolve to follow His teaching and imitate His example. He who tries to learn of Jesus Himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own lips, binding himself to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught and to do whatsoever He hath commanded-he I say, is the stable Christian.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

That's the secret of Jesus. You watch Jesus and you see he never did "withdraw" and then "attack." All of the time people wanted him to do it and in many ways, but he would not. Then to the body of believers he said, "This will show everyone that you are my disciples, if you love one another," but he had already said, "Love one another as I have loved you." So that's the model.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.