black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

Francis Chan

When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
FRANCIS CHAN

Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
FRANCIS CHAN

Identity Lost Ourselves Scripture World
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
FRANCIS CHAN

Answer Love Myself Prayer
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
FRANCIS CHAN

Definition God Love Ourselves Standard
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
FRANCIS CHAN

Fertilizer Growth Help Togetherness
We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That’s Weird.
FRANCIS CHAN

Live Modern Religious Time Weird
Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
FRANCIS CHAN

God Himself Try
Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
FRANCIS CHAN

Consequence People Pin Save Warm
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

Complete God Himself Leadership Understand Worship
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
FRANCIS CHAN

Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
FRANCIS CHAN

Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
FRANCIS CHAN

Better Fall God Life Myself Relationship Wonderful
Can you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
FRANCIS CHAN

Action Explanation God Himself Obligation Worship Yourself
God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
FRANCIS CHAN

God Invitation Life Ourselves
Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
FRANCIS CHAN

Commitment Display Humble Journey Love Marriage Platform Pride
I don’t have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
FRANCIS CHAN

Expectation Myself Planning Success Worry
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
FRANCIS CHAN

Glory God Himself Life
Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
FRANCIS CHAN

Freedom Power Thinking Yourself
Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
FRANCIS CHAN

Compassionate God Himself Life Love People
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
FRANCIS CHAN

Difference God Love Wealth
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
FRANCIS CHAN

God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
FRANCIS CHAN

Education Focus Follow Love People Student Teaching
The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
FRANCIS CHAN

Difficult Joy Life Season Teaching True
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
FRANCIS CHAN

Better God Reason Right Temptation Walk
The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
FRANCIS CHAN

God Heaven Message Yourself
A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
FRANCIS CHAN

Earth God Myself Surrender
We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
FRANCIS CHAN

God Grace Joy Myself Response Talk

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Francis Chan Quotes