Matt Chandler Quotes

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

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.

The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

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

There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

Worship is the way of life for those entranced by and passionate for the glory of God.

No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

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

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?

The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.

If all you got is "I don't want to be that" then sell insurance.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.

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

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

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.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?

The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.