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Quotable Quote ... Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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Quotable Quote ... Alvin Toffler

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.

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Quotable Quote ... Alfred Souza

For a long, long time it seemed to me that I was about to begin real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

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Quotable Quote ... Michael Davis

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

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Quotable Quote ... Javier Moreno Valle

Not being ahead of time is not being on time.

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Quotable Quote ... Francis Chan

Nowhere in Scripture do I see a “balanced life with a little bit of God added in” as an ideal for us to emulate. Yet when I look at our churches, this is exactly what I see: a lot of people who have added Jesus to their lives. People who have, in a sense, asked Him to join them on their life journey, to follow them wherever they feel they should go, rather than following Him as we are commanded. The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives and keep on as we did before. The Spirit who raised Christ from the dead is not someone we can just call on when we want a little extra power in our lives. Jesus Christ did not die in order to follow us. He died so that we could forget everything else and follow Him to the cross, to true Life.

HT: Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan with Danae Yankoski (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2009)

Quotable Quote ... Francis Chan

It is easy to use the phrase “God’s will for my life” as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. 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. It’s safer to commit to following Him someday instead of this day.

HT: Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan with Danae Yankoski (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2009)

Quotable Quote ... Francis Chan

I think a lot of us need to forget about God’s will for my life. God cares more about our response to His Spirit’s leading today, in this moment, than about what we intend to do next year. In fact, the decisions we make next year will be profoundly affected by the degree to which we submit to the Spirit right now, in today’s decisions.

HT: Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan with Danae Yankoski (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2009)

Quotable Quote ... Francis Chan

As a younger man, there was much of me that wanted God’s power in my life because I wanted the attention. Now I want God’s power because I don’t want the attention. Jesus says in Matthew 5:16, “In the same way, let you light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” It is possible for us to be doing incredible things for the kingdom yet have people give glory to God rather than to us.

HT: Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan with Danae Yankoski (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2009)

Quotable Quote ... Francis Chan

For all its caterpillar life it crawls around a small patch of dirt and up and down a few plants. Then one day it takes a nap. A long nap. And then, what in the world must go through its head when it wakes up to discover it can fly? What happened to its dirty, plump little worm body? What does it think when it sees its tiny new body and gorgeous wings?

As believers, we ought to experience this same kind of astonishment when the Holy Spirit enters our bodies. We should be stunned in disbelief over becoming a “new creation” with the Spirit living in us. As the caterpillar finds its new ability to fly, we should be thrilled over our Spirit-empowered ability to live differently and faithfully. Isn’t this what the Scriptures speak of? Isn’t this what we’ve all been longing for?

HT: Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan with Danae Yankoski (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2009)