Francis Chan Quotes
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If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
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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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Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.
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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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Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
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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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...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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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?”
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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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If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.
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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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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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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 stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
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Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
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God's presence is all that matters.
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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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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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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.
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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.