Quotes from Paul David Tripp

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.

Worshiping the creation is never a pathway to life; it leads you in the opposite direction.

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

Everything that was created was made by God and for God. All the glories of the created world were designed to point to his glory. The universe is his, designed to function according to his purpose and plan. That includes you and me. We were not made to live independent, self-directed lives. We were not meant to exist according to our own little self-oriented plans, living for our own moments of glory. No, we were created to live for him.

the Bible is not a collection of stories, but one big story with lots of chapters. It is the story of how God meets weak and failing people with his powerful grace.