Quotes from Chip Ingram

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.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.