Misfits Welcome Quotes

“Inward living produces outward devastation. Outward serving produces inner joy.”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride

“I feel my job is to throw buckets of grace on people every day, because it’s the only way people can make it!”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride

“One of the best days of my life was when I drove my little Nissan Sentra from my sheltered life in Phoenix, Arizona, as a megachurch pastor’s son to the heart of downtown Los Angeles to help my father with his first church in the City of Angels. I was only twenty, but I was the acting pastor! Totally out of my element. I was unprepared, unqualified, and really unsure. Why did I say this was the best day? Because it was the day I truly needed God. The day I realized I couldn’t figure life out on my own.”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride

“You are unique! Don’t live in self-doubt. Realize that whatever you see as a flaw or a lack is an opportunity for God to use that beautiful place of vulnerability for His glory. We are all out of our element in some way. We are all in need of God’s grace and His miracles.”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride

“God wants us to look into the mirror of His Word so that we can know exactly who we are. The Word of God shows us not only who we are, but what we can become. What happens when we look at our lives and measure them up to His Word? We realize we fall short. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” The reflection of the Word of God shows us the blemishes, the hypocrisy, the million ways we seem to miss the target.”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride

“For every act of disobedience that sends us down a miserable path, another act of surrender can send us down a great one.”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride

“There is nothing more beautiful than fighting selfishness with love.”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride

“God can use our pain, because in our pain we learn how to rely on the “power of His might” (Eph. 6:10 NKJV).”
― Matthew Barnett, Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride