Francis Chan Quotes

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

How vast the number of people who are well versed in every science, yet it is their adherence to the holy Word of God which will determine their faith, inasmuch as the fruit of every science is none other than the knowledge of divine precepts

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

He who listens is beloved of god, he who does not listen is hated by god. [It is] the heart [which] makes of its owner a listener or a non-listener….The fool who does not listen can accomplish nothing at all.

I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

The awe of God is wisdom.

One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already