Francis Chan Quotes

I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

You change the world by being yourself.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

I must find a truth that is true for me.