Quotes from Francis Chan

Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.

Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

Worry implies that we don't quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives.

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.

I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?

Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

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

Solomon warned us not to rush into God's presence with words. That's what fools do. And often, that's what we do.

Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?"

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology; He wants us to know and love Him.

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.