Francis Chan Quotes

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

If God should punish men according to what they deserve, he would not leave on the back of the earth so much as a beast.

The most high over all the earth gave kings at first, to the Jews (as he sends war) in anger, and as a judgment, and it may be affirmed, that upon the whole, they have been a scourge to the inhabitants of the earth ever since

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."