Top 180 Matt Chandler Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s OK to not be OK – just don’t stay there.”

— Matt Chandler

2. “Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That’s the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.”

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3. “Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying. Our culture doesn’t love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.”

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4. “God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.”

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5. “Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.”

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

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7. “God is at work in the mess. That’s the message of the Bible. That’s why the Bible is not pretty. That’s why it’s grimy, because God is working in the mess. He’s working in the tears.”

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8. “If you’re not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.”

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9. “I’m accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.”

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10. “Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.”

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11. “My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.”

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12. “Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.”

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13. “If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.”

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14. “No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.”

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15. “The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.”

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16. “Proverbs 31:30: “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.”

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17. “The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.”

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18. “Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.”

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19. “God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.”

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20. “The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.”

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21. “Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?”

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22. “Really, all frustration is birthed out of unmet expectations, and so is nearly every conflict.”

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23. “Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.”

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24. “Thanksgiving is worry’s kryptonite.”

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25. “No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.”

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

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

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28. “When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.”

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29. “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.”

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

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31. “Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.”

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32. “There’s a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it’s spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, “Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue.” There’s just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.”

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36. “The idolatry the exists in a man’s heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.”

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37. “In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.”

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38. “What made me love Christ wasn’t that all of a sudden I figured out how to do life. What made me love Christ is that when I was at my worst, when I was at my lowest point, when I absolutely could not clean myself up and there was nothing anybody could do with me, right at that moment, Christ said, “I’ll take that one. That’s the one I want.”

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

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40. “The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.”

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41. “Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you’re simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.”

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42. “Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.”

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43. “Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation.”

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

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45. “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.”

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46. “Truly, God’s plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It’s about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.”

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47. “Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.”

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48. “If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.”

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49. “Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.”

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50. “I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it’s not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let’s wrestle. Let’s fight. Let’s do something besides just complain.”

— Matt Chandler