Francis Chan on discipline
Francis Chan76 quotes“We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.”
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan 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.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan 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.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan God never breaks His promises.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan 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?
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Pat SummittPat Summitt It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
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