Quotes from Paul David Tripp

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

It gives you a reason to get up in the morning and to be able to sleep at night, no matter what you're facing at the moment.

He covers your past with his grace; he protects, provides for, and empowers you in the present; and he holds every aspect of your future in his sovereign and gracious hands.

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power.

We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give. Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.