Francis Chan Quotes
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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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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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
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Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.
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Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?”
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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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Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.
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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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My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."
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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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Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.
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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.