We are here to love. Not much else matters.
FRANCIS CHANI’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.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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God’s presence is all that matters.
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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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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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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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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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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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Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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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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Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
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He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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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.
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God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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God never breaks His promises.
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Following Christ isn’t something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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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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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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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 wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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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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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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