Francis Chan Quotes

The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for His return. Backward they looked to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. Upward they looked to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. Forward they looked to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see Him again. And we ought to do the same.

When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

Mary joins us, she fights at our side. She supports Christians in the fight against the forces of evil. Especially through prayer, through the rosary. Hear me out, the rosary... Do you pray the Rosary each day?

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.