Quotes from Paul David Tripp

Envy is universal because sin is.

But God has not called us to erect a little family monastery. Please read carefully what I am going to write next. Monastic parenting will not deliver your children from moral danger.

the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.

We must all come to understand and accept the truth that our walks with God are community projects.

If you seek satisfaction, satisfaction will escape your grasp. But if you seek God, rest in his presence and grace, and put your heart in his most capable hands, he will satisfy your heart as nothing else can. You were made for him. Your heart was designed to be controlled by worship of him. Your inner security is meant to come from rest in him. Your sense of well-being is intended to come from a reliance on his wisdom, power, and love.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God. We

if threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

Biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.

The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

The normal day is a 24-hour collection of little moments. Day after day, week after week, and year after year, these little moments set the character of a person's life.

It is humbling to admit, but I have had to face the fact that the greatest danger to my ministry is me!

It is only when we really do believe that life is bigger than us, that there is something more important than our wants, needs, and feelings, and that we have been given life and breath for the purposes, plans, and praise of another, that we will be willing to forgive.