Francis Chan Quotes
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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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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Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
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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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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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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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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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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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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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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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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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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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I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.
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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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Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means.
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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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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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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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Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.
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Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
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As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment