261 Quotes by Matt Chandler

The God of the Bible is not an ambulance driver who shows up after the wreck and hops out and thinks, Okay, let’s do some triage here. The God of the Bible does not show up after the accident and try to fix it. That’s not what He does.

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

The conflict you’re having is not primarily about them; God is working in this conflict to reveal something about you.

Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow.

So quit looking for ‘the one’. You have a better chance of finding an Oompa Loompa riding a unicorn, fighting Bigfoot.

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.

We have to feel the weight of God’s severity, because without feeling the weight of his severity, we won’t know the weight of his kindness, and we won’t be able to worship him and him alone. Worship of him is why we were created.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

When we commit to a spouse for life, we are agreeing to enter a sacred union between two sinners and Jesus, and when you’ve got two sinners walking together over the years, you will see just how sinful he or she – and you – can be.