Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
FRANCIS CHANSomething is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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God’s presence is all that matters.
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In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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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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Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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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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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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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.
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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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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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When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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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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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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