Top 100 Paul David Tripp Quotes
#1. Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.
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#2. In the center of the kingdom of God, you do not find a gargantuan palace inhabited by an unapproachable king. No, in the center of the kingdom of God is a bloody cross, on which hung a broken King, who welcomes us as we are.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.
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#5. Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.
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#6. People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
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#7. When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.
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#8. We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.
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#9. Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
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#10. If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.
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#11. The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy - but then Jesus came.
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#12. Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.
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#13. when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.
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#14. 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.
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#15. We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The
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#16. the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.
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#17. If you are not requiring yourself to get your deepest sense of well-being vertically, you will shop for it horizontally, and you will always come up empty.
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#18. You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.
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#19. The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.
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#20. When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.
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#21. We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.
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#22. 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.
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#23. You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.
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#24. Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.
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#25. We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.
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#26. You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule. You won't need the church to schedule ministry for you; you will approach work, marriage, parenting, extended family, friendships, and community with a ministry mentality.
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#31. It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.
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#32. We're not only held captive by our sin, but also by the delusion of our righteousness. Resting in God's grace isn't just about confessing your sin; it's about forsaking your righteousness as well.
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#33. Maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant spiritual growth.
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#34. Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
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#35. Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.
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#36. Christ's sacrifice satisfied the Father's anger so that, as his child, you will receive his discipline but need not fear his wrath.
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#37. The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
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#38. Because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.
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#39. The struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.
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#40. If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.
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#41. You and I can face the harsh realities of life in this broken world with courage and hope because we do not face them all by ourselves. Immanuel ("God with us") is indeed with us in power, glory, and grace.
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#42. Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.
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#43. Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
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#44. God justifies the ungodly. This means there really is hope for people like us.
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#45. It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,
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#46. Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?
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#47. We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.
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#48. You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.
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#49. If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.
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#50. So we have only one place of hope, one solid rock on which to stand, and that rock is Christ Jesus. Only when we admit that we have awe-fickle hearts will we begin to reach out for and cling to the forgiving, transforming, rescuing, and delivering grace of Jesus.
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#51. We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.
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#52. 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.
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#53. We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.
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#54. Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.
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#55. We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
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#56. 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.
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#57. Here's the bottom line: you and I struggle with the faithfulness of God, not because he has been unfaithful, but because we have.
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#58. When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.
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#59. Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.
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#68. Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.
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#69. In his mind, he held up all the artifacts he had collected over the years and wondered about their true value.
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#70. For the church to be the church - not just a place where you can find ministry but where the people are a ministering community - every believer must accept his or her role in the life of every other believer.
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#71. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. PSALM 145:5
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#72. Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.
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#73. Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.
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#74. The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
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#75. God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.
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#76. Success is not about how well I've been able to build my own little kingdom but about the degree to which I've done all I've done in the service of a greater
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#77. Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic
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#78. Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order.
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#79. Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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#80. Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
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#81. The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing - that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love.
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#82. The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.
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#83. 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.
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#84. The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.
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#85. Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.
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#86. You can't divide human beings into the "those who make sacrifices" and "those who don't." We all carry things in our hearts for which we are very willing to make sacrifices. The issue that divides us is for what, or for whom, are we willing to make these personal sacrifices.
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#87. Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.
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#88. Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.
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#89. The blinding ability of sin is so powerful and persuasive that you and I literally need daily intervention.
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#90. 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.
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#91. I understand why many people who call themselves Christians are not excited about grace. If you think your environment is your problem, you won't esteem grace, but once you admit that you're your biggest problem, you will celebrate the grace that rescues you from you.
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#92. No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do. It's a fact that you and I are in an endless conversation with ourselves.
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#93. 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.
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#94. We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.
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#95. if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!
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#96. The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.
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#97. When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.
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#98. Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.
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#99. It's natural to want mercy for yourself but justice for others. It's natural to be very aware of the sin others, yet blind to your own. If we are ever going to be people of mercy, we need bountiful mercy ourselves, because what stands in the way of our being a community of mercy is us.
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#100. 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.
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