Francis Chan Quotes

Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.