We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
FRANCIS CHANLife is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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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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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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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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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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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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Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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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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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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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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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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