261 Quotes by Matt Chandler

And so creation itself is eagerly watching the sons and daughters of the King, waiting for the last one to come into the kingdom so that the rocks and trees can be set free.

Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.

Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God.

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.

Remember that everyone you meet is eternal. You have never met someone who will cease to exist one day, and you have never met someone who does not bear God’s image. So care about and take an interest in those you run across.

The gospel creates a new reality that deepens our understanding of the world and our place in it.

But there is a beauty even in loving without response because that kind of love is truly selfless. When we love with no expectation or promise of reciprocity, we know what it means to sacrifice and deny ourselves in ways we wouldn’t otherwise.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

And what we learn in the Song of Songs is that a marriage shaped according to this gospel of grace, forged over years of hard-earned trust and forgiveness, can be an unsafe place for sin but a very safe place for sinners. In a gospel-centered marriage, when two souls are mingled together with the Holy Spirit’s leading, we find confirmation after confirmation that grace is true, that grace is real – that we can be really, truly, deeply known and at the same time really, truly, deeply loved.