Francis Chan Quotes
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You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
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The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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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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God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.
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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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Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.
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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
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...if God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
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Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
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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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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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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.
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Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the best thing he can do is be faithful to his Savior in every aspect of his life, continually saying "Thank You!" to God. An obsessed person knows there can never be intimacy if he is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy. He revels in his role as a child and friend of God.
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When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
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The enemy just hates our prayers.
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Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.