Francis Chan Quotes

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In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

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There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

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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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Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a # God who is a # Creator not a # Duplicator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

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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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Trying harder doesn't work for me. Slowly I've learned to pray for God's help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

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The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.

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We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I'm not saying it is wrong to pray for God's protection, but I am questioning how we've made safety our highest priority. We've elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God's best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world.

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Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

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He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him]. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

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