Quotes from Paul David Tripp

The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

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.

It is humbling to admit, but I have had to face the fact that the greatest danger to my ministry is me!

It is only when we really do believe that life is bigger than us, that there is something more important than our wants, needs, and feelings, and that we have been given life and breath for the purposes, plans, and praise of another, that we will be willing to forgive.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There

Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from "Let me do what I want to do" to "Guard me against the temptation to do what you know is best for me not to do.

It is humbling, but it is important to remember that it is only ever the sin inside us that hooks us to the sin outside of us. So what we need most is not a change of location or relationship, but a fundamental rescue of heart, and that is exactly what God's grace in the person of the Holy Spirit provides for us.

Yet this grand and glorious God, for the purpose of redemption, becomes a man. The untraversable line between Creator and creature is crossed. The Word becomes flesh. The feet of God touch earth! The voice of God is heard on earth! The Lord comes as the Second Adam, the Word of Life, the Final Priest, and the Sacrificial Lamb. He satisfies God's requirements, he atones for God's anger, and he defeats death.

Here's what you need to understand: your faith is not your hope; his zealous grace is the only source of hope for fickle-faith sinners.

I don't know if you've thought about this, but there are only two places to look for hope. You can search for it horizontally, thinking that something in creation will give you the security, peace, and inner sense of well-being that you seek, or you can seek it vertically, entrusting your life into the loving hands of your Creator

Corporate worship is designed to once again clear up our confusion as to what is truly important in life.

Your King rules over everything that would discourage and disappoint you, and he rules for your good and his glory. What is out of your control is under his rule.

If Christ is the head of his body—and he is—then everything else is just body. The most influential pastor or ministry leader is a member of the body of Christ and therefore needs what the other members of the body need.

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

As you struggle, you must not view your marriage as bad luck, or poor planning, or as a mess that you made for yourself. No, God is right smack-dab in the middle of your struggle. He is not surprised by what you are facing today. He is up to something.

Una amonestación no es una condenación, es un llamado. Las palabras de exhortación no son un juicio, son un estímulo a seguir al Señor. La confrontación no es una sentencia, es una advertencia. Nos hablamos unos a otros con la Palabra de Dios, no porque seamos superiores o mejores, ni porque seamos capaces de arreglarle la vida a los demás. ¡No! Enseñamos, animamos, amonestamos, corregimos y exhortamos porque Dios nos ha comisionado hacerlo.

Since your standing with God is based not on your righteousness but on Christ's, in moments of failure, you can run to him and not from him.

A leadership community is spiritually safe and prepared for a long-term and productive life of ministry only when what is important to God is not just theologically important to them but also functionally important.

Successful parenting is the rightful, God-ordained loss of control. The goal of parenting is to work ourselves out of a job. The goal of parenting is to raise children who were once totally dependent on us to be independent, mature people who, with reliance on God and proper connectedness to the Christian community, are able to stand on their own two feet.

Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

It is sad how many people constantly live in the schizophrenic craziness of eternity amnesia. We were created to live in a forever relationship with a forever God forever. We were designed to live based on a long view of life. We were made to live with one eye on now and one eye on eternity. You and I simply cannot live as we were put together to live without forever.

The purpose of God's grace is not to make your little kingdom of one work better.

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

Si tomas el crédito como líder, en lugar de reconocer al que te envió y al único que produce el fruto de tus labores, alabarás menos, orarás menos y planearás más.