Francis Chan Love Quotations

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.

There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.

What are you doing right now that requires faith?

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

He measures our lives by how we love.

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

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

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

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.

If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

All my life I've heard people say, 'God loves you.' It's probably the most insane statement you could make to say that the eternal Creator of this universe is in love with me. There is a response that ought to take place in believers, a crazy reaction to that love. Do you really understand what God has done for you? If so, why is response so lukewarm?

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

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

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?”

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.

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.