God’s presence is all that matters.
FRANCIS CHANOur greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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God never breaks His promises.
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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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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
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We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe 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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Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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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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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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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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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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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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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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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.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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