Matt Chandler

“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.”

“Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.”

“Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.”

“Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.”

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

“Ladies, if you’re single there is nothing wrong, sinful or wicked about desiring a husband, nothing. Anyone who would say otherwise is absolutely lying to you. God wired you for it, He built you for it. Men, there is nothing wrong, wicked, or evil about wanting a wife. I don’t know when that happened, I don’t, now listen I do think that you need to be content where you are today, alright, but listen I’m content with what Christ is doing in me today but I don’t want to be who I am today, I’m hoping Christ will complete what He began. It’s okay, it’s alright, who made it so complicated? it’s okay, it’s okay to want a wife, it’s okay to want a husband, those are good things, they’re really good things. It’s okay, it’s okay to want.”

“God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.”

“Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?”

“God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.”

“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.”

“I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.”

“Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.”

“If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.”

“Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?”

“We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.”