Chip Ingram famous quotes

03-28-2025

God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!
-- Chip Ingram

#Giving #Baking #Bread
Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus.
-- Chip Ingram

#Jesus #Children #Successful
Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water.
-- Chip Ingram

#Christian #Water #Christian Inspirational
Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies.
-- Chip Ingram

#Christian #Jesus #Ideas
The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.
-- Chip Ingram

#Jesus #Humility #Example
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
-- Chip Ingram

#Wise #Smart #Giving
The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.
-- Chip Ingram

#Prayer #Knowing #Path
I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy.
-- Chip Ingram

#Humility #Responsibility #Roots
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.
-- Chip Ingram

#Desire #His Love #Spirit
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

#Praying #Said #Feels
Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
-- Chip Ingram

#Sticks
As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.
-- Chip Ingram

#Hurt #Patterns #Manipulation
We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.
-- Chip Ingram

#People #Needs #Our Words
Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.
-- Chip Ingram

#Generosity #Way
Many Christians 'stall out' in the faith when the call to total commitment is received or viewed as something too high or too hard to acquire...or they have never been taught that total commitment is Christ's demand for all His followers.
-- Chip Ingram

#Christian #Commitment #Followers
Godâ€™s plan for you, whether youâ€™re married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is to be in a warm, loving marriage relationship, characterized by open communication, a lot of hard work, deep commitment, setting boundaries, and doing it Godâ€™s way.
-- Chip Ingram

#Communication #Hard Work #Commitment
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!'
-- Chip Ingram

#Men #Looks #Want
Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of the physical aspects of the relationship, and they have no particularly compelling reason to explore its depths.
-- Chip Ingram

#Couple #Depth #Research
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
-- Chip Ingram

#Hopeless #Situation #Hopeless Situations
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.
-- Chip Ingram

#People #Giving #Boards
There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.
-- Chip Ingram

#Balance

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