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“Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.”
-- Francis Chan
#Jesus #Giving #Thought Provoking
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“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
-- Francis Chan
#Inspirational #Inspiring #Fear
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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 .”
-- Francis Chan
#Mold #Be Careful #Turns
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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.”
-- Francis Chan
#God #Trouble #Situation
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“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
-- Francis Chan
#God #Jesus #Thought Provoking
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“God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.”
-- Francis Chan
#What Matters #Purpose #Definitions
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“Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.”
-- Francis Chan
#Plans
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“The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.”
-- Francis Chan
#Facts #Worship #Praise
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“If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.”
-- Francis Chan
#Needs #Helping #Need God
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“Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?”
-- Francis Chan
#Thinking #Make You Think #Arrogance
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“The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.”
-- Francis Chan
#People #Church #Gathering
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“We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.”
-- Francis Chan
#Christian #Powerful #Live Life
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“He measures our lives by how we love.”
-- Francis Chan
#Live By
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“Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.”
-- Francis Chan
#Christian Inspirational #Religion #Christianity
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“When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.”
-- Francis Chan
#Spiritual #Acceptance #Citizens
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“The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.”
-- Francis Chan
#Inspiration #Want #Life Is
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“Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?”
-- Francis Chan
#Live Your Life #Way #Relationship With God
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“It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.”
-- Francis Chan
#Selfish #Light #Land
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“The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.”
-- Francis Chan
#Wise #Men #Awe
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“Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.”
-- Francis Chan
#Christian #Land #America
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“When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.”
-- Francis Chan
#Giving #Doubtful
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“The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.”
-- Francis Chan
#Moving #Speak #Loan
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“I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.”
-- Francis Chan
#Sports #Team #Mean
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“As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.”
-- Francis Chan
#Christian #Heaven #Oxymoron
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“We don't get to decide who God is.”
-- Francis Chan
#Who God Is
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“Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.”
-- Francis Chan
#Crazy #Mean #Have Faith
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“My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.”
-- Francis Chan
#Prayer #Focus #Inability
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“‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?”
-- Francis Chan
#People #Matter #Loving God
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“We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.”
-- Francis Chan
#Believe #Thinking #Expression
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“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you into the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be…”
-- Francis Chan
#Jesus #Mold #Safe
