Francis Chan Quotes
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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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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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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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God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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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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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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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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The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.
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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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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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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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I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
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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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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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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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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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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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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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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
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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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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.