Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
FRANCIS CHANThe greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe 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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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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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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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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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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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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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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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
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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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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That’s Weird.
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