Quotes from Paul David Tripp

We need more than acceptance or practical strategies for change. We need the forgiveness, deliverance, and empowerment that only God's grace can give.

Pastor, your eternal future carries with it the sure promise that you will have all the grace you need to do what you've been called to do between the time you came to Christ and the time you will go home to be with him forever.

The surprise of situational distress has produced deeply emotional questions that have led them to deeply theological conclusions, but it's been nothing like the sort of theological debate found in a classroom.

The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

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.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

Listen to the present tense gospel in the words of Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ [a statement of historical redemptive fact]. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me [a statement of present redemptive reality]. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me [living in light of the gospel right here, right now].

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

Peace isn't a faded dream. No, Peace is real. Peace is a person, and his name is Jesus.

Our problem is that we tend to be unfaithful to his holy agenda and get kidnapped by our plans for us and our dreams for our lives. The trials in our lives exist not because he has forgotten us, but because he remembers us and is changing us by his grace. When you remember that, you can have joy in the middle of what is uncomfortable.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.