Francis Chan Quotes
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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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This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.
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Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
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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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Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.
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What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
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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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Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
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It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.
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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.
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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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The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
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I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
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Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'
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Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?”
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
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What are you doing right now that requires faith?
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A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
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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.