Matt Quotes

I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool.

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

Singing is easy. The proof is always in the living.

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.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

Public education is an investment in our future.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

It's better to be in love than watch it.

The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.

All a woman actually wants is to feel special.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

Preach the Gospel with your life.

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.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

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

Part of the fun of being alive is knowing that you're annoying the hell out of someone else.

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

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

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy.

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

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

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

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

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

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.

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

In order to move forward, you have to look back.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

If I don't fight every day to 'fix' my eyes on Jesus, my ADD soul will look to a million lesser things.