Quotes about Character
True biblical faith is always something that you live. If your faith does not reshape your life, it is not true faith.
- Paul David Tripp
your alarm that is your conscience only sounds based on the standard that your heart has surrendered to. This means that a good and godly moral value system will all your conscience to function properly, but a bad and self-centered moral value system will mean that your conscience will do you harm.
- Paul David Tripp
You will always deny your need for God's grace when you are more irritated than convicted. It's possible to be irritated with things in other people that you regularly excuse in yourself.
- Paul David Tripp
The most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character, and plan of God.
- Paul David Tripp
Self-control is a fruit of his work.
- Paul David Tripp
The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.
- Paul David Tripp
Awelessness that leads me to question God's power and character will cause me to take my life into my own hands, and because I have taken my life into my own hands, I will rebel against what God calls me to
- Paul David Tripp
Finally, we must understand that theology is never an end in itself, but a means to an end, the end that we would progressively become like the One who is the ultimate definition of what love is and what love does.
- Paul David Tripp
The world of envy no more mixes with the world of grace than oil does with water.
- Paul David Tripp
the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.
- Paul David Tripp
The normal day is a 24-hour collection of little moments. Day after day, week after week, and year after year, these little moments set the character of a person's life.
- Paul David Tripp
the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.
- Paul David Tripp