Provoking Quotes - Page 3

• Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Giving, Thought Provoking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.56, David C Cook

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• If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, May, Scripts

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• Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Heart, Thought Provoking

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• Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

  Francis Chan

  Mean, Thought Provoking, Failing

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.171, David C Cook

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• We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

  Larry Page

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Sound

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• Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

  Francis Chan

  People, Giving, Thought Provoking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.51, David C Cook

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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Thought Provoking, Levels, Looks

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• The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

  Doris Lessing

  Thought Provoking, Youth

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.453, Vintage

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• When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

  Francis Chan

  Crazy, Thinking, Nuts

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• One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Times

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• I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

  Francis Chan

  Writing, Thought Provoking, Needs

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• 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.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Lord, Millions

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• We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Prayer, Thought Provoking

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• Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

  Francis Chan

  Games, Thought Provoking, Video

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• Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Blessing, Punishment

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• You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, Insult

  "After Paris attacks, Pope speaks out against insulting religions" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. January 15, 2015.

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• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

  Hans Kung

  Thought Provoking, Humanity, Lasts

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• You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

  T. S. Eliot

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Humiliation

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.348, Faber & Faber

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• Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Soul

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• I keep six honest serving men.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Motivational, Men, Thought Provoking

  Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

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• We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

  Queen Victoria

  Motivational, Thought Provoking

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• If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

  Nancy Mitford

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Amused

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Watches

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• This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Pay

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• Perfection can be a fetish

  Bernard Leach

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Perfection

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