Quotes from Paul David Tripp
Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.
- Paul David Tripp
We forget that God's primary goal is 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
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
We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
- Paul David Tripp
Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.
- Paul David Tripp
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.
- Paul David Tripp
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
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
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.
- Paul David Tripp
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
Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
- Paul David Tripp
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