Francis Chan Quotes
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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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The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.
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Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.
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The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.
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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.
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Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
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Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.
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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
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What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
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This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.
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We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
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God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
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If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.
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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.
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The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.
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Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'