Quotes from Paul David Tripp

The largest body of content in the psalms is given to lament, in which the psalmist "laments" or mourns the situation he is in and the distress he is facing.

An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.

grace is greater than all of the sin we're grappling with.

Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.

I want to get you to think about and finally find comfort in the fact that our experience of suffering is never just physical. The pain that stops us in our tracks, that makes us want to pull the covers over our head and not face the day, and at moments makes us wish that we could die, is never just physical.

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

The real burdens of suffering are made significantly more difficult when you carry them in a heart spiritually weakened by bitterness.

My Savior has been with me, for me, and in me, and he works to take very bad things and produce through them very, very good things.