Matt Quotes
Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.
If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.
Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.
(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.
The heightened sanity of science and the sheer lunacy of magic. It's in the area where they overlap that we both are able to find... ecstasy!
If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.
Focus on relationships in your communities and God will come up spiritual conversations will emerge and real needs will come to light.
The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world.
It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.
Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.
Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!
Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
aphorism 90: I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.
Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?
Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.
A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.
Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.
And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.
Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…
The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.
No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.
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A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.
Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.
Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.
Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your needs if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!
The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.
Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.
A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?
Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?
Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.
It took a special kind of madness to try to be a pirate and a good man at the same time.
Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?
Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.
I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
