Top 100 Francis Chan Quotes
#1. There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
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#2. Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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#3. Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
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#4. Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.
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#5. What scares me most are people who are lukewarm and just don't care.
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#6. God is not someone who can be tacked on to our lives.
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#7. It turns out that the Bible is right - "It is better to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). People generally do find greater joy in giving freely to others than they do in rampant self-indulgence.
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#8. Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
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#9. This is the tension we live with as followers of Jesus. We are thrilled to know Jesus and be saved from God's wrath, yet we are burdened for our loved ones who don't know Him.
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#10. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
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#11. He knew that what he had stumbled upon - the kingdom of heaven - was more valuable than anything he had, so he went for it with everything in him.
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#12. Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.
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#13. Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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#14. The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Both Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God's.
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#15. The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, and knows your every thought. And this is a good thing. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
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#16. 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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#17. Let's pray that God would empower us so radically that we would get no glory. That people would see our works and glorify God.
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#18. I don't believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches - whatever specific forms our gatherings take - to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.
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#19. But it isn't up to us, mostly because none of us are good.
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#20. Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.
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#21. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
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#22. . . . nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God;
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#23. Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do.
Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
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#24. As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment
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#25. A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God (James 1:2-4).
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#26. Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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#27. I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?
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#28. As much as we want God to explain Himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.
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#29. 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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#30. My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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#31. We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.
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#32. Is there anything you want more than to hear "well done" come from God's lips? Not "well said" or "well thought out," but "well done." Do
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#33. Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God ... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?
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#34. The problem is, many in the church want to "confess that Jesus is Lord," yet they don't believe that He is their master.
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#35. Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.
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#36. It's breathtaking to picture almighty God saying, "I know Francis Chan. He's my son. I love him!" Are you confident this is what God would say if I asked Him about you? Do you know God or just know about Him? Are
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#37. I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.
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#38. I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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#39. 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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#40. We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.
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#41. When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more. Or, as Deuteronomy says, "Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work an din all that you undertake." (15:10 NRSV)
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#42. God wants us to pursue certain actions, but as we put God's commands into action, our motivation makes all the difference.
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#43. Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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#44. Discipleship is all about living life together rather than just one structured meeting per week.
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#46. If you'd rather watch your kids grow up than see the face of your Savior today, you don't grasp the beauty of God. If you worry about what would happen to your children if you were gone, you don't understand the providence of God.
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#47. We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving of ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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#48. Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'
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#49. Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.
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#50. 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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#51. Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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#52. It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.
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#53. God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!
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#54. With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
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#56. We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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#57. Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.
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#58. The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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#59. We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
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#60. It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.
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#61. Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.
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#62. What are you doing right now that requires faith?
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#63. Do you believe that God is the greatest thing you can experience in the whole world?
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#64. 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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#65. The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
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#66. Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
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#67. Did you know that a caterpillar has 228 separate and distinct muscles in its head?
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#68. People in love act much differently than people with a sense of obligation.
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#69. It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church going, hollow-hearted prosperity.5
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#70. A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.
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#71. I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
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#72. Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.
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#73. Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.
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#75. When Jesus was asked, "What is the greatest commandment?" he responded with "Love.
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#76. We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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#77. Jesus' intention in this parable was to compare the only good soil to the ones that were not legitimate alternatives. To Him, there was one option for a true believer.
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#78. I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.
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#79. Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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#80. And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I've never tried this, and I don't recommend it.)
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#81. There is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
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#82. The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
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#83. You can be more effective together than apart. In a truly healthy relationship, we enable each other to accomplish more than we could have done alone. This was His plan.
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#84. Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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#85. An obsessed person knows there can never be intimacy if he is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy. He revels in his role as child and friend of God.
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#86. Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
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#87. Psalm 115:3 reveals, "Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.
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#88. Perhaps it's not theology we're missing, but rather theological integrity. Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy between what we know and how we live.
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#89. This could all end at any moment ... Therefore, be self-controlled.
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#90. Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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#91. On the average day, we live caught up in ourselves. On the average day, we don't consider God very much. On the average day, we forget that our life truly is a vapor.
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#92. The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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#94. Being in war together may be what keeps us from being at war with each other. Rather than neglecting the battle to work on your marriage, maybe the best thing for your marriage is to enter the battlefield together.
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#95. The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives and keep on as we did before.
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#96. James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology; He wants us to know and love Him.
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#97. Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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#98. I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
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#99. Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
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#100. It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
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