Francis Chan on desire
Francis Chan76 quotes“Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.”
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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 ChanFrancis Chan God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
Francis ChanFrancis Chan We are here to love. Not much else matters.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan 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.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
Francis ChanFrancis Chan We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan 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.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
ChanakyaChanakya We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric HofferEric Hoffer Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba