Quotes from Chip Ingram

The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.

Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.

As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.

We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

Let's help people get on board with what God wants to give them, but what we don't want is the process. Everyone wants the product.

Are we going to answer God's call for this church to make a significant impact in this new millennium, or will we rest on past success?

If we want to see God as he longs for us to see him, we must look at Jesus very closely.

But the second half of the message has been sorely neglected: the part about God's dream that you become a precious and cherished son or daughter living in deep union with Him.

God delights to do ... impossible things through improbable people to impart exceeding grace to undeserving recipients.

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.

Whenever anxiety knocks on the door of your heart, answer it with prayer.

Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, "me first" culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of "truth" as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.

This lifestyle of putting on the armor implies consistent and multiple efforts. We live this way because of what can happen if we don't: relinquishing the benefit of our position in Christ as we are bombarded by schemes designed to destroy us and render us ineffective in kingdom pursuits.

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.

Shalom is a comprehensive expression of God's will for us in every situation we face.

Understanding the role of God's protection will not help us very much if we don't first understand exactly why we need it. If your eyes are not yet open to the behind-the-scenes context of our new life in Christ—if you are still skeptical about the whole business—prepare to be jolted by the reality of the conflict raging around you.

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?

Romans 11:33–36:

Worry and anxiety are not great thoughts; faith in God's promise is.

God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.