Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
FRANCIS CHANDo you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
More Francis Chan Quotes
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God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
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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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Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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I don’t have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
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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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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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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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I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please 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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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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