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 CHANJesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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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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God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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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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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?
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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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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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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 disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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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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Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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