Quotes from Paul David Tripp

The person who is comfortable in his own righteousness hasn't really understood grace, and the person who is unimpressed by God's grace hasn't really understood his sin. So

Mourning means you recognize the most important reality in the human existence, sin. Mourning means you have been hit by the weight of what it has done to you and to everyone you know.

Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.

The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

There is so much that we are incapable of understanding. So rest is found in trusting the Father.

Something as normal as a concern over what others think of me, or what will happen to me if others oppose me, rises to a level of such immediate importance that my actions are more shaped by that concern than they are about the huge and transcendent glories of the life-altering grace of the gospel.

what is success?

Either your heart lives in a fundamental, life-shaping awe of the horizontal, physical, created world ("things that are on the earth"), or your heart lives in a foundational vertical awe of God, his work, his grace, and his kingdom. If your

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another.

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people. Truth not spoken in love ceases to be true because it's bent and twisted by other human agendas.