Matthew Carter Quotes & Sayings

I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives. — Matthew Carter

Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for. — Matthew Carter

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance. — Matthew Carter

Click-throughs on a video are often much higher than a standard website listing on the front page of Google. If you see a video in the Google results ... it stands out a lot more than a regular website listing does, so [it] tends to attract more clicks. — Matthew Carter

Make sure your vision is God's vision. — Matthew Carter

I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them. — Matthew Carter

"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc. — Matthew Carter

Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification. — Matthew Carter

As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling. — Matthew Carter

Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to fight off those thoughts and others who don't want to fight them, or have just given in for whatever reason and whether they know the darkness they act upon is wrong, they love the darkness. — Matthew Carter

Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's. — Matthew Carter

Make sure you are passionate about the vision. — Matthew Carter

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow. — Matthew Carter

Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities. — Matthew Carter

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God. — Matthew Carter

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters. — Matthew Carter

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting. — Matthew Carter

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else. — Matthew Carter

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free. — Matthew Carter

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine. — Matthew Carter

There was never a point in which I was worried about being jealous about what my friends had seen or done. Instead, I felt blessed that I was able to feel what others were all about. I was enlightened by their truth and way about things. — Matthew Carter

There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us. — Matthew Carter

If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down. — Matthew Carter

The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at. — Matthew Carter

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically. — Matthew Carter

Everybody has secrets and some are deeper and darker than others. I think if we peered within the psyche of another we would be all of those things and so very much more. — Matthew Carter