Francis Chan

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

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.

The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.

Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.

What are you doing right now that requires faith?

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

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

If a guy were dating my daughter but didn't want to spend the gas money to come pick her up or refused to buy her dinner because it cost too much, I would question whether he were really in love with her In the same way, I question whether many American churchgoers are really in love with God because they are so hesitant to do anything for Him." Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.

[at CMC West Coast 2011, on 1 Samuel 14] If just a few of you would step up and be like Jonathan ... as you step out in faith, you know what's going to happen? There'll be people like Saul who'll say, "God's doing something through that guy, God's doing something through that girl. I want to be a part of that.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.

He measures our lives by how we love.

...no worship is better than apathetic worship.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.