Top 100 Paul Tripp Quotes
#1. The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.
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#2. You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.
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#4. 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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#5. Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.
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#6. We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.
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#7. God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#10. Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually use your theology to justify things that should not be justified.
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#11. 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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#12. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.
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#13. 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.
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#14. When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.
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#15. 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.
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#16. The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.
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#18. If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.
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#19. What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?
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#20. Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.
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#21. What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?
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#22. People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
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#23. When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.
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#27. Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied. And because we are satisfied, we are resistant to the grace that is our only hope.
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#34. If awesome things in creation become your god, the God who created those things will not own your awe. Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. When Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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.
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#43. 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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#44. Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
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#45. We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.
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#46. 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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#47. So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.
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#48. Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.
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#49. You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.
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#50. Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.
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#51. 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.
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#52. when you blame other people for your circumstances or for the wrongs that you do, you are, in fact, blaming God. You are saying that God didn't give you what you needed to be what he has called you to be and to do what he has called you to do.
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#53. He's not first working on your happiness; he's committed to your holiness.
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#54. We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Every time you make creative, interactive, and harmonious jazz with your Redeemer, whether in your home, friendships, community, church, or at work, while staying inside of his parameters, you are expanding what you touch to the size of God's kingdom.
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#58. 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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#59. 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.
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#60. There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.
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#61. 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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#62. How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?
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#63. There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.
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#64. There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus
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#65. 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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#66. Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.
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#67. 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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#68. Jesus not only revealed God's glory on earth; he died so that that glory would be the final resting place of our hearts.
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#69. 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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#70. May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.
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#71. 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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#72. Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
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#76. 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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#77. The struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.
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#78. 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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#79. Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.
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#80. You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you. When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.
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#81. Since God writes your story, he knows what you're facing and exactly what grace you'll need to live his way.
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#82. 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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#84. 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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#85. Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
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#86. Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
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#87. God justifies the ungodly. This means there really is hope for people like us.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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.
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#98. We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.
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#99. 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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#100. We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
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