Paul David Tripp Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.
There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus
You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.
Don't be discouraged at the spiritual war you're called to fight every day. The Lord almighty is with you and wars on your behalf.
How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?
God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.
You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.
If threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.
Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.
When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.
when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.
Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.
The blinding ability of sin is so powerful and persuasive that you and I literally need daily intervention.
If you're God's child, you will never again have just you to depend on. No, you've been blessed, right here, right now, with grace.
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.
If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.
Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.
Remember, waiting isn't just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait, but also about what you will become as you wait.
The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy - but then Jesus came.
I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.
To think today, when your life doesn't work as planned, that it's out of control is to forget that Jesus reigns for your sake and his glory.
We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.
It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,
Don't fear your weaknesses - God supplies all the strength you need. Be afraid of those moments when you think you're independently strong.
Since God writes your story, he knows what you're facing and exactly what grace you'll need to live his way.
We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.
Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.
We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.
Here's the bottom line: you and I struggle with the faithfulness of God, not because he has been unfaithful, but because we have.
Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.
The great battle of parenting is not the battle of behavior; it's the battle for what kind of awe will rule children's hearts.
Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.
There's not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God's abundant mercies are not new.
The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait.
Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.
You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.
The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.
Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.
If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.
if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you've been given.
the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.
In his mind, he held up all the artifacts he had collected over the years and wondered about their true value.
Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.
Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.
When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.
On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.
Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.
The reality that on every morning brand-new mercy greets us is not the thing that grips our minds as we frenetically prepare for our day.
Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
He knows that his plan will confuse and confound you. And he knows that real rest cannot be found in understanding. Real rest is found in trust.
Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?
That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.
You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.
Jesus not only revealed God's glory on earth; he died so that that glory would be the final resting place of our hearts.
In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.
Christ's sacrifice satisfied the Father's anger so that, as his child, you will receive his discipline but need not fear his wrath.
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.
Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.
What will it be for you today - the discontent of doubt and fear or the contentment of peace and rest?
Can you tell the story of redemption in one sentence? Sin has driven us out of the garden, but grace drives us right into the Father's arms.
You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.