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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
– Francis Chan

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  1. 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. – Francis Chan
  2. God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept. – Francis Chan
  3. We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator. – Francis Chan
  4. Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God. – Francis Chan
  5. True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises. – Francis Chan
  6. Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter. – Francis Chan
  7. When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another’s need to speak be our silent statement. – Bryant McGill
  8. We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are. – Francis Chan
  9. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts less like Christ. – Francis Chan
  10. The verses in the Bible are more than good teachings, they possess power. – Francis Chan
  11. Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  12. I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. – Tupac Shakur
  13. Calm for too long begs the question of whether we’re in an all-out pursuit of life, or we’re all-out of the pursuit of life. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  14. Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life. – Billy Graham
  15. I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  16. Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away. – Dave Matthes
  17. Life’s value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness. – Steven Redhead
  18. My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me. – Collette West
  19. Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let’s keep it in perspective. – Vera Nazarian
  20. Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service. – Philip Yancey
  21. If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  22. Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure. – Rick Perlstein
  23. The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one. – Ayn Rand
  24. We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness. – Mary E DeMuth
  25. It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe. – Katlyn Charlesworth
  26. I don’t need to come closer to kill you, but I will come closer to watch you bleed. (Darius) – Madison Thorne Grey
  27. The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one another. – Billy Graham
  28. He leans in closer and closer until his breath caresses my mouth. I’m paralyzed. I swear he’s going to kiss me. I swear I’m going to let him. – KA Tucker
  29. Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they’re perfect or closer… – Assegid Habtewold
  30. People don’t change, they come closer and closer to who they really are. – Faraaz Kazi
  31. Discover where and what makes you come alive and make a deliberate decision to live there. – Mensah Oteh
  32. Let’s dare to do something so big that if God is not in it, we are doomed to fail. – Edmund Chan
  33. Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. – Sarah J Maas
  34. There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions! – Israelmore Ayivor
  35. Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. – Brian Herbert
  36. It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset. – Pearl Zhu
  37. It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and–what will perhaps make you wonder more–it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. – Seneca
  38. Christian love is not a wave of emotion, but a deliberate conviction of the mind that issues in a biblical way of life. (p. 36) – PG Mathew
  39. Mind-power takes you to the mountaintop. Heart-power takes you the stars. Soul-power takes you to the edge of the universe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer. – Assegid Habtewold

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