Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

"God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love."

"[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks without guilt, worry or fear. As long as you are running, you're safe."

"True faith manifests itself through our actions."

"The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by."

"But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through."

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."

"Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?"

"‎"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?"

"God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love."