Francis Chan Quotes

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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.

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God didn't just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.

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There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

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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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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

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If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

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The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.

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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

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We are loaded down with too many good things, more than we could ever need, while others are desperate for a small loaf. The good things we cling to are more than money; we hoard our resources, our gifts, our time, our families, out friends....how ludicrous it is to hold on to the abundance God has given us and merely repeat the words 'thank you'.

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In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

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In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.

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God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

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We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.

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It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

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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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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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But hey, if that's too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

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We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

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We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.

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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

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You have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.

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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.

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Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.

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Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.

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Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?

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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

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People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

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Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.

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