Top 100 Tripp's 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.
J.D. Greear
#2. Here's the bottom line: you and I struggle with the faithfulness of God, not because he has been unfaithful, but because we have.
Paul David Tripp
#3. Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
Linda Tripp
#4. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength. Self-reliance is almost always a component of a bad relationship.
Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp
#5. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#6. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#7. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#8. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#9. Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.
Paul David Tripp
#11. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#12. Christ's sacrifice satisfied the Father's anger so that, as his child, you will receive his discipline but need not fear his wrath.
Paul David Tripp
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. He's not first working on your happiness; he's committed to your holiness.
Paul David Tripp
#19. They don't have to agree with you on everything in order to respect you.
Tedd Tripp
#20. Eagles NEVER go THROUGH storms. THEY RISE ABOVE THEM! Are eagles faced with storms? YES! Do they go through storms? NO!
Terry Tripp
#21. 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
#22. We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.
Paul David Tripp
#23. Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
Paul David Tripp
#24. I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
Linda Tripp
#27. Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.
Paul David Tripp
#28. There's nothing gay about living life straight
Paul B. Tripp
#29. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#30. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#31. There's not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God's abundant mercies are not new.
Paul David Tripp
#32. if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!
Paul David Tripp
#33. It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.
Paul David Tripp
#34. You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.
Paul David Tripp
#35. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#36. 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
#37. An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands
Paul David Tripp
#38. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#39. It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There's a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.
Paul David Tripp
#40. 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
#41. We cannot impress our children with the fame of God's name if we are not impressed with him ourselves. If
Tedd Tripp
#42. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#43. Giselle Speakmon's parents are totally devout. When I get in there and we hook up, there won't be any cribs for me either, Dad, because I reckon they'll make me wear one of those chastity belts, knowin' Jas is my brother and all.
Kristen Ashley
#44. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.
Paul David Tripp
#45. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#46. The law of God is not easy for natural man. Its standard is high and cannot be achieved apart from God's supernatural grace. God's law teaches us our need of grace. When you fail to hold out God's standard, you rob your children of the mercy of the gospel.
Tedd Tripp
#47. God designed us to be worshipers. Everything we do is the product of worship. We are always giving our hearts to something, and if it's not God, it's something God created. All
Paul David Tripp
#48. How do you think of the Bible? Is it law, condemnation, warning, guilt, threats and judgment? Or is it God's merciful and gracious revelation for fallen, broken humanity?
Tedd Tripp
#49. Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.
Tim Lane And Paul Tripp
#50. God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.
Paul David Tripp
#51. 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.
Paul David Tripp
#52. 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
#53. Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.
Paul David Tripp
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
Bill Condon
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart.
Tedd Tripp
#64. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.
Paul David Tripp
#65. What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?
Paul David Tripp
#66. 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
#67. Respectful teenagers are developed when they are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, not at 13, 14, 15, or 16.
Tedd Tripp
#68. 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
#69. The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.
Tripp York
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.
Paul David Tripp
#73. Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.
Paul David Tripp
#74. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. When Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!
Paul David Tripp
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.
Paul David Tripp
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.
Paul David Tripp
#99. 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
#100. People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
Paul David Tripp
