Francis Chan Quotes
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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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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
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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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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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Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin. They don't genuinely hate sin and aren't truly sorry for it; they're merely sorry because God is going to punish them. Lukewarm people don't really believe that this new life Jesus offers is better than the old sinful one.
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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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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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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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Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, '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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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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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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Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
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The enemy just hates our prayers.
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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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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Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.
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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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Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
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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.