Quotes from Paul David Tripp

This is the upside-down world of ministry calling. The pathway to freedom is servanthood, the pathway to greatness is slavery, and the pathway to deep and lasting joy—joy that people and circumstance cannot take away—is denying yourself

No, trials expose what we have always been. Trials bare things to which we would have otherwise been blind. So, too, the teen years expose our self-righteousness, our impatience, our unforgiving spirit, our lack of servant love, the weakness of our faith, and our craving for comfort and ease.

If you are alive on this planet, you are a counselor! You are interpreting life, and sharing those interpretations with others. You are a person of influence, and you are also being influenced.

to close the gap between your confessional theology and your functional theology, and by closing the gap, give the enemy less opportunity to do his evil work.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

when we are living in the middle of difficulty, we are tempted to view it as a sign of God's unfaithfulness or inattention.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. OSWALD CHAMBERS

Get up and face life with courage because, as God's child, you have not been left to the limits of your own strength and wisdom.

We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

It was not puny little David against this awesome giant. No, it was this puny little giant against the God who is the sum and definition of all that is awesome.

The reconciliation of a marriage must be a lifestyle, not just the response you have when things go bad. Consider

Every human being is in need of a king. All human beings need the rescue, forgiveness, justice, mercy, refuge, and protection that they are unable to give themselves.