Quotes from Paul David Tripp

God's grace often does its best and brightest work when things are the darkest and most difficult.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

If you could defeat sin by separating yourself from its external manifestations, Jesus would never have needed to come.

It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There's a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.

This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.

gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

This is the good news of the gospel. Peace came. Peace lived. Peace died. Peace rose again. Peace reigns on your behalf. Peace indwells you by the Spirit. Peace graces you with everything you need. Peace convicts, forgives, and delivers you. Peace will finish his work in you. Peace will welcome you into glory, where Peace will live with you in peace and righteousness forever. Peace isn't a faded dream. No, Peace is real. Peace is a person, and his name is Jesus.

It didn't begin just before you were born. It began before the world was born. He placed his grace on you and wrote your story in such a way that at a certain point in time you would hear the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe. His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his. He granted you and me what we never could have deserved; our new life is his choice, his gift.

Yes, it is true—God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

No solo hemos sido liberados de la necesidad de cumplir la ley para ser salvos, sino también de la esclavitud al pecado en la vida diaria. Hemos sido liberados del peso de la ley para vivir una vida piadosa. No podemos gloriarnos en nuestra liberación sin a la vez aceptar nuestro llamado (ver Ro 6:1-14; Tit 2:11-14).

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

God knew that our calling would be so huge and our weakness so deep that the only thing that would help us was himself. So in an act of incredible grace, he has unbuttoned us and gotten inside of us. Now think about this as a parent. This God who has the ability to do things that are way beyond your ability to conceive, who has perfect wisdom and unlimited strength, right now lives inside of you.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

Suffering causes us to scan our lives and face the fact that we control very little. So we mourn not only our suffering but also what it has forced us to admit about ourselves. Our loss of the illusion of control also adds to the fear that accompanies suffering.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.

God is with you in your moments of darkness because he will never leave you. But your darkness isn't dark to him. Your mysteries aren't mysterious to him. Your surprises don't surprise him. He understands all the things that confuse you the most.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace. He knows, he understands, he is in control of what appears to be chaos, he is never surprised, he is never confused, he never worries or loses a night's sleep, he never walks off the job to take a rest, he never gets so busy with one thing that he neglects another, and he never plays favorites.

The world you live in is a lot like that broken-down house. Every single room has been dirtied and damaged by sin. Not one part of it shines with anything like the pure glory that was so evident when it was first made. Sin has left this world in a sorry condition. You see it everywhere you look.

Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.