Quotes from Chip Ingram

Satan is always content to hide in the shadows of a worldview if he can exploit that worldview to his own ends.

God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!'

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

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.

SURRENDER—Pray Psalm 139:23–24: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Commit to respond to whatever the Holy Spirit reveals to you.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster."[1]

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.

Unfortunately, most Christians do not understand the battle they are fighting, the enemy that they face, or the means God has provided to overcome the temptations and deception of this present world system.

Character is always more caught than taught.

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.

I would learn then that generosity has little or nothing to do with how much money you have or how far along you perceive yourself to be on your spiritual journey. In fact, I was shocked to learn that being generous has much more to do with being smart, shrewd, wise, and deliriously happy. In a word, I discovered that generosity is genius!

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

Love was the early Christians' marketing plan and their business card was joy.

Your priority in life should be a relationship with Christ, not an agenda for him.

Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.

As believers in Christ, we do not fight for victory; we fight from victory. In Christ's power, we are invincible.

Interestingly, there has been significant research done with people experiencing what we call infatuation. When we have this experience we could call falling into infatuation (or falling into romantic interest), chemicals are secreted in the brain, causing light-headedness, dizziness, and a flood of emotions that we can't explain. Certain people trigger that kind of response in us. We are almost instantly drawn to them.

What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.