Matt Chandler Quotes

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.

Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.

If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite.

When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.

Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

The best of our best, without Jesus, looks like a pile of crap compared to Him.

Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

Our goal is transformed hearts that lead to transformed lives. Transformed lives do not lead to transformed hearts. Are you trackin' with that?

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.

Preach the Gospel with your life.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.