Francis Chan Quotes

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ’s family and be members of his body.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.