Chip Ingram Quotes
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Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.
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Most of us learn to trust, not because we’re noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don’t have any other choice.
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Love was the early Christians' marketing plan and their business card was joy.
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Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.
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Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.
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If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
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If we want to see God as he longs for us to see him, we must look at Jesus very closely.
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Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, “me first” culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of “truth” as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.
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God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!
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Authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.
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Worry and anxiety are not great thoughts; faith in God’s promise is.
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Character is always more caught than taught.
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Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
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God delights to do ... impossible things through improbable people to impart exceeding grace to undeserving recipients.
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There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.
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To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
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Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.”
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There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.
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When you bow your head to pray - when you’re in a jam and you need to ask God for something - are you aware of who you’re talking to?
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Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water.
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Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That’s not exactly coincidence.
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Stop worrying about being your child's buddy. You are the only one in the world with the primary responsibility of giving your child what he needs, not what he wants.
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God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.
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"Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.