Top 100 Tripp Quotes
#1. One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
Bill Condon
#2. Cal would not be like any other father who went berserk because some hotshot football star got in their daughter's pants. Cal would go commando on Jasper's ass. "Tripp,
Kristen Ashley
#3. Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich
#4. Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?
Fay Wray
#5. Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp
Abbi Glines
#6. Were you already here?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?"
"Yeah."
Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?"
"No.
Abbi Glines
#7. When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring.
Mary Amato
#8. 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.
J.D. Greear
#9. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#11. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#12. Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.
Paul David Tripp
#13. We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.
Paul David Tripp
#14. God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
Paul David Tripp
#15. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#16. The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.
Tripp York
#17. 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
#18. Respectful teenagers are developed when they are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, not at 13, 14, 15, or 16.
Tedd Tripp
#19. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#20. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#21. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.
Paul David Tripp
#22. Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart.
Tedd Tripp
#23. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#24. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#25. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#26. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#27. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
Wallace Tripp
#29. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#30. What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?
Paul David Tripp
#31. Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.
Paul David Tripp
#32. What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?
Paul David Tripp
#33. People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
Paul David Tripp
#34. The person your child becomes is a product of two things. The first is his life experience. The second is how he interacts with that experience.
Tedd Tripp
#35. When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.
Paul David Tripp
#36. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#37. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#38. If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.
Paul David Tripp
#39. Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.
Paul David Tripp
#40. The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy - but then Jesus came.
Paul David Tripp
#41. Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.
Paul David Tripp
#43. when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.
Paul David Tripp
#44. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#45. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#46. 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
Paul David Tripp
#47. 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
Paul David Tripp
#48. the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.
Paul David Tripp
#49. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#50. When Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!
Paul David Tripp
#51. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#52. The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.
Linda Tripp
#53. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#54. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#56. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#59. I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
Linda Tripp
#60. Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
Paul David Tripp
#61. We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.
Paul David Tripp
#62. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#63. Eagles NEVER go THROUGH storms. THEY RISE ABOVE THEM! Are eagles faced with storms? YES! Do they go through storms? NO!
Terry Tripp
#64. They don't have to agree with you on everything in order to respect you.
Tedd Tripp
#65. So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.
Paul David Tripp
#66. Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.
Paul David Tripp
#68. You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.
Paul David Tripp
#69. Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.
Paul David Tripp
#70. The most powerful way to keep your children from being attracted by the offers of camaraderie from the wicked is to make home an attractive place to be.
Tedd Tripp
#71. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#72. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#73. Well, I've never been a morning person either. Perhaps that is true. But the question is this: Has that habit of personality been a blessing or a curse to you?
Tedd Tripp
#74. He's not first working on your happiness; he's committed to your holiness.
Paul David Tripp
#75. We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.
Paul David Tripp
#76. You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.
Paul David Tripp
#77. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#78. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#79. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#80. We give them material things and take delight in their delight in possessions. Then we hope that somewhere down the line they will see that a life worth living is found only in knowing and serving God.
Tedd Tripp
#81. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#82. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#83. The conscience within man is always either excusing or accusing.
Tedd Tripp
#84. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#85. How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?
Paul David Tripp
#86. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#87. There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus
Paul David Tripp
#88. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#89. Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.
Wallace Tripp
#90. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#91. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#92. Jesus not only revealed God's glory on earth; he died so that that glory would be the final resting place of our hearts.
Paul David Tripp
#93. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#94. May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.
Paul David Tripp
#95. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#96. Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
Paul David Tripp
#97. He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding (Proverbs 15:32).
Tedd Tripp
#98. Three. Two. One. One. Two. Three. What the heck is bothering me?
Tripp Whetsell
#99. Behavior is a manifestation of what is going on inside. What a person says or does mirrors the heart. "For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).
Tedd Tripp
#100. 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.
Paul David Tripp
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