Quotes from Paul David Tripp

The first of these comforts is the stunningly encouraging comfort of God's amazing grace.

God's law is meant to address and expose the heart because sin is always a matter of the heart before it is an action of the body.

It is found in knowing that your heavenly Father is not afraid of, or will not be defeated by, what makes you afraid or has the power to defeat you. Peace comes when you rest in the fact that grace has connected you to the One who has overcome everything that could cause your heart to be troubled, and nothing can sever that connection.

You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

The reality that on every morning brand-new mercy greets us is not the thing that grips our minds as we frenetically prepare for our day.

The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy—but then Jesus came.

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.

This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it's me.

Face the fact today that you'll never outgrow your need for grace, no matter how much you learn and how much you mature, until you are on the other side and your struggle is over because sin is no more (see Phil. 3:12—16). The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency