Chip Ingram > Quotes

“Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.”
― Chip Ingram, The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare

“Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.”
― Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: Doing Less, Loving More

“If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.”
― Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: Doing Less, Loving More

“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.”
― Chip Ingram, Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships

“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.”
― Chip Ingram, The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare

“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.”
― Chip Ingram, True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian

“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]”
― Chip Ingram, Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships

“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.”
― Chip Ingram, True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian

“Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.”
― Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: Doing Less, Loving More

“If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.”
― Chip Ingram, Genius of Generosity: Lessons From a Secret Pact Between Two Friends

“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!”
― Chip Ingram, Genius of Generosity: Lessons From a Secret Pact Between Two Friends

“Your priority in life should be a relationship with Christ, not an agenda for him.”
― Chip Ingram, Good to Great in God's Eyes: 10 Practices Great Christians Have in Common

“Love was the early Christians' marketing plan and their business card was joy.”
― Chip Ingram, Good to Great in God's Eyes: 10 Practices Great Christians Have in Common

“The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.”
― Chip Ingram, The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare

“Whenever anxiety knocks on the door of your heart, answer it with prayer.”
― Chip Ingram, I Choose Peace: How to Quiet Your Heart in an Anxious World

“Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That’s not exactly coincidence.”
― Chip Ingram, The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare

“Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.”
― Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: Doing Less, Loving More

“authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.”
― Chip Ingram, True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian

“That’s why it is so dangerous to use infatuation as a sign to pursue a relationship. If you and I don’t know the difference between infatuation and love, we are destined to make some of the dumbest and most regrettable decisions we’ll ever make. These bad decisions come with heavy and painful price tags. So you see, it’s imperative in this tricky business of “falling in love” that we take the time to clearly define what we mean by the word “love.” The investment will pay off handsomely. We can actually learn how to avoid future relational baggage and how to recognize authentic love relationships when we clarify two crucial issues: (1) what love is, and (2) what the difference is between love and infatuation.”
― Chip Ingram, Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships

“When you and I have to move forward and make important, life-changing decisions, how do we know what to choose? What’s right? What’s wrong? What’s true? Whom should we marry? What job should we take? Should we get involved in this or not? That’s when you and I need to claim God’s promise that he will lead and direct us as clearly as he did David. Notice that he leads us in the right path for “his name’s sake.” God is more committed to revealing his will to us than we are to following it. I assure you that if you will come to the place where you are honestly willing to do whatever God directs you to do, he will show you what to do 100 percent of the time (Ps. 32:8).”
― Chip Ingram, Finding God When You Need Him Most

“Slow me down, Lord. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations—of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to smile at a child, to read a few lines from a good book. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values, that I may grow toward my greater destiny. Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed. Let me look upward to the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.”
― Chip Ingram, Overcoming Emotions that Destroy: Practical Help for Those Angry Feelings That Ruin Relationships

“Character is always more caught than taught.”
― Chip Ingram, Effective Parenting in a Defective World

“Evil and demonic spirits, I come against you now in the name of the Lord Jesus. I am a child of God, I am covered by Jesus’s blood, and I command you right now in Jesus’s name to leave my house and to leave me alone.”
― Chip Ingram, The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare

“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.”
― Chip Ingram, True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian

“Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.”
― Chip Ingram, The Genius of Generosity: Generous Living Is Joyful Living

“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?”
― Chip Ingram, Holy Ambition: Turning God-Shaped Dreams Into Reality

“God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.”
― Chip Ingram, God: As He Longs for You to See Him

“There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.”
― Chip Ingram, Good to Great in God's Eyes: 10 Practices Great Christians Have in Common

“Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, “me first” culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of “truth” as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.”
― Chip Ingram, Culture Shock: A Biblical Response to Today's Most Divisive Issues

“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.”
― Chip Ingram, The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare