Francis Chan Quotes
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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.
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In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.
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Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means.
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption the cross, even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
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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.
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It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.
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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.
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Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.
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God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
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We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.
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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.
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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
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In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin
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If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.