Top 180 Matt Chandler Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

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

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53. “Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be.”

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54. “The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God’s people, He was purposefully preparing me.”

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55. “Everybody knows something’s broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.”

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56. “While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.”

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57. “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.”

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58. “So what does it look like to live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ? It looks like walking with, loving with, and doing life with those who are different from you. What binds you together is Christ. It looks like striving together to make Christ known. What motivates you is Christ. And it looks like standing with courage against all oppressors, natural or supernatural. What secures you is Christ. To live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

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59. “Our lamenting of God’s “silence” while our Bible goes undisturbed is actually quite revealing, because we want new revelation while at the same time we refuse to be obedient to what we already know.”

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60. “But let’s be honest. Real good can come from never missing Sunday-morning worship. Real good comes from guarding what you watch. Good can come from guarding your life in these ways. But as a means to or measure of our righteousness? These things will always fall short.”

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61. “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.”

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62. “Jesus doesn’t avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.”

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63. “Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there’s an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God.”

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64. “God has seen our unloveliness – the deep brokenness and rebellion in our hearts – and instead of withdrawing, he pursues us to the beautiful end. He made an eternal commitment to sinners because of his great love for us. And because grace is true, you can face the world with all of its dangers and troubles, knowing you have been established forever as blameless by the holy groom, Jesus Christ.”

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65. “In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.”

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66. “Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.”

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67. “Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I’m not perfect.”

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68. “Romance in marriage, for it to be truly a mingling of souls, cannot simply be a mingling of body parts. No, we must acknowledge both the blessing and the danger of beauty.”

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69. “Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’”

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70. “We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.”

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71. “Because marriage is meant to reflect the great sacrificial and sanctifying love Christ has for his church, it makes sense to connect your married life to a local Christian congregation.”

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72. “Children are perceptive, and if they see leaders and parents talk with boredom and apathy about faith yet become overtly passionate about sports teams or shopping malls, they will think the sport or the mall is more attractive than Jesus.”

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73. “We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts. We come to the throne and say, “I’ll do this, and you’ll do that. And if I do this for you, then you’ll do that for me.”

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

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75. “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.”

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76. “Get over yourself. You were saved by grace alone through faith alone. Therefore, God gets all the glory alone. And when you understand this one basic issue, you’ll stop going into you and start going into the Lord – just laying out all the smelly, rotten groceries, shaking all the stuff out of your pockets, bringing it all out into the open, and saying, “Here, would You please get rid of this for me?”

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77. “In Christ’s grace, there is freedom to be honest and transparent. When we embrace that security and freedom, then we end up pointing others to the only Source of healing and forgiveness.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.”

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80. “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.”

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81. “While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God’s mercy and grace.”

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82. “People don’t like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don’t love love – love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it’s not emotive. Our culture doesn’t love love, it loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it.”

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83. “Men, let me plead with you: The greatest fight of your life is not lust. You may think it is, but it isn’t. The greatest fight of your life will be rejecting the passivity that has infected your heart since the fall. Your natural default, especially as it pertains to sacrificial leadership of your wife, will be to mutely witness.”

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84. “The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.”

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85. “The glory of God is that you can’t outs in His grace.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.”

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88. “You have no shot at experiencing real change in life if you’re habitually protecting your image, hyping your spiritual brand, and putting out the vibe that you’re a lot more unfazed by temptation than the reality you know and live would suggest.”

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89. “Many of the things that stifle growth are morally neutral. They’re not bad things. Facebook is not bad. Television and movies are not bad. I enjoy TV, but it doesn’t take long for me to begin to find humorous on TV what the Lord finds heartbreaking.”

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90. “The sovereign God of the universe said, “This one is Mine.” Over and against all the prerequisites I had invented for placing my faith in God, the Father had placed His Spirit in me.”

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91. “It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.”

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92. “If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.”

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93. “Why is it that so few “pretty people” without checkered pasts are used mightily in the Scriptures? Because the Bible is primarily about God’s grace, not about human cleanliness.”

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94. “I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends – friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.”

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

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

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97. “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.”

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98. “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.”

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99. “Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.”

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

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