Francis Chan Quotes
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I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.
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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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Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.
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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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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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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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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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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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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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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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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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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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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)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?
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We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
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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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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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I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
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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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Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
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This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.
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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.