Francis Chan Quotes
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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?
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People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.
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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.
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"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?
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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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Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
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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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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.
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I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.
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Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.
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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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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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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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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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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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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they're not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.