Quotes from Paul David Tripp

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

suffering is not an unusual, surprising experience; it's the experience of everyone who lives in this dramatically broken world.

But here is the reality: all of the horizontal battles are the fruit of a deeper war. The most important war, the one that needs to be won, is not the war they are having with each other, but a war that wages within them individually. Real change is all about winning this war.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.

The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

So we have only one place of hope, one solid rock on which to stand, and that rock is Christ Jesus. Only when we admit that we have awe-fickle hearts will we begin to reach out for and cling to the forgiving, transforming, rescuing, and delivering grace of Jesus.

Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.

And as you begin to remember that God's mercy is your only hope and you meditate on the grandeur of the mercy that has been showered on you, you begin to want to help others experience that same mercy. You see, to the degree that you forget the mercy you've been given, it is easier for you to not give mercy to others. I daily need God's work of mercy in order to do his work of mercy.

The crisis of faith that often accompanies suffering is the result of a collision between our will and God's will and our glory and his glory.

When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.