Top 300 Francis Chan Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “You’ve got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.”

— Francis Chan

252. “I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.”

— Francis Chan

253. “Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.”

— Francis Chan

254. “The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives and keep on as we did before. The Spirit who raised Christ from the dead is not someone we can just call on when we want a little extra power in our lives. Jesus Christ did not die in order to follow us. He died and rose again so that we could forget everything else and follow Him to the cross, to true Life.”

— Francis Chan

255. “But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians – you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything.”

— Francis Chan

256. “It’s not that there aren’t a million other things to learn about God, but He says you’ve got to start with the fear of the Lord because that’s the beginning of wisdom.”

— Francis Chan

257. “Many people will tell you to focus on your marriage, to focus on each other; but we discovered that focusing on God’s mission made our marriage amazing.”

— Francis Chan

258. “None of us is beyond the task of missions... The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.”

— Francis Chan

259. “I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.”

— Francis Chan

260. “Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?”

— Francis Chan

261. “I think the fear of God failing us leads us to “cover for God.” This means we ask for less, expect less, and are satisfied with less because we are afraid to ask for or expect more.”

— Francis Chan

262. “Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.”

— Francis Chan

263. “The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives and keep on as we did before.”

— Francis Chan

264. “R. C. Sproul writes, “Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”1.”

— Francis Chan

265. “The Christian life is a process of better understanding what Jesus taught, learning to apply that teaching in our everyday lives, and then teaching others – people directly around us and people on the other side of the globe – to do the same.”

— Francis Chan

266. “A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.”

— Francis Chan

267. “Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.”

— Francis Chan

268. “This is why self-deprecation is as wicked as slandering God’s Church.”

— Francis Chan

269. “Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?”

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270. “Christians in America have become experts at conviction – and failures at action.”

— Francis Chan

271. “Too many Christians are content with appearing to be a bit more moral than the people around them. But the difference between a true Christian and a non-Christian is not about subtle moral distinctions – it’s the difference between being alive and being dead!”

— Francis Chan

272. “There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?”

— Francis Chan

273. “Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don’t push and prod people along.”

— Francis Chan

274. “You can be more effective together than apart. In a truly healthy relationship, we enable each other to accomplish more than we could have done alone. This was His plan.”

— Francis Chan

275. “I would much rather hire someone who prayed and did nothing else than someone who worked tirelessly without praying.”

— Francis Chan

276. “James 2:17- ‘Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.’ The lives of many people who call themselves ‘Christians’ in America lack manifestations of a vital and active faith. And this, to be perfectly honest, frightens me. It keeps me up at night. It causes me to pray desperately and fervently for my congregation, for the groups of people I speak to, and for the church as a whole.”

— Francis Chan

277. “Jesus came humbly as a servant, but He never begs us to give Him some small part of ourselves. He commands everything from His followers.”

— Francis Chan

278. “The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.”

— Francis Chan

279. “Fear of God failing us leads us to “cover for God.” This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.”

— Francis Chan

280. “Doesn’t every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?”

— Francis Chan

281. “If we focus too much of our attention on what people want, we will only increase the amount of complaining.”

— Francis Chan

282. “Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.”

— Francis Chan

283. “There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.”

— Francis Chan

284. “With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.”

— Francis Chan

285. “Take time to rejoice in Christ. Seriously. No woman wants to be led by a joyless man. Let Christ fill you so you have plenty to give your wife. Find all of your security and worth in being a child of God, a member of Christ’s body. He “nourishes and cherishes” you, which enables you to do the same for your wife.”

— Francis Chan

286. “As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.”

— Francis Chan

287. “The verses in the Bible are more than good teachings, they possess power.”

— Francis Chan

288. “Stories of people who died after living godly lives are stories with happy endings.”

— Francis Chan

289. “When we present the gospel, we try to answer one question: How do I keep from going to hell? After that question is answered, we stop asking questions about God. With the American church being so concerned about converts, we don’t take the time to present the God-centered universe to people. We don’t try to dig deep into the truth of God. We need to learn the attributes of God before we know what He is like.”

— Francis Chan

290. “When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.”

— Francis Chan

291. “I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.”

— Francis Chan

292. “How would my life change if I actually thought of each person I came into contact with as Christ – the person driving painfully slow in front of me, the checker at the grocery store who seems more interested in chatting than ringing up my items, the member of my own family with whom I can’t seem to have a conversation and not get annoyed?”

— Francis Chan

293. “When we forget about the Spirit, we really are forgetting God.”

— Francis Chan

294. “Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It’s easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.”

— Francis Chan

295. “Rather than creating our own pep rallies, our calling is to simply put Him on display and watch as He draws people to Himself. If they are not interested in Him, what do we think we’re accomplishing by trying to lure them by other means?”

— Francis Chan

296. “The idea of holding back certainly didn’t come from Scripture.”

— Francis Chan

297. “If you have not known and experienced God in ways you cannot deny, I would suggest that you are not living in a needy and dependent way.”

— Francis Chan

298. “Show true religion, cause words don’t relieve.”

— Francis Chan

299. “It’s not about figuring out all of the mysteries of God, but embracing Him and cherishing Him – even when He doesn’t make perfect sense to us.”

— Francis Chan

300. “This isn’t a very popular idea in the American church, where we separate our love for God from our service to God. We say we love God most, but it’s a vague statement that yields little action.”

— Francis Chan