Matt Quotes

My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

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.

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

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

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

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

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist.

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

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

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

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

Build step by step. Push yourself, but not too hard. Learn. Keep it fun.

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

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

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

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

The objective is not to "make your links appear natural"; the objective is that your links are natural.