Quotes from Paul David Tripp

Jesus not only revealed God's glory on earth; he died so that that glory would be the final resting place of our hearts.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

suffering is not an unusual, surprising experience; it's the experience of everyone who lives in this dramatically broken world.

But here is the reality: all of the horizontal battles are the fruit of a deeper war. The most important war, the one that needs to be won, is not the war they are having with each other, but a war that wages within them individually. Real change is all about winning this war.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.

The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

So we have only one place of hope, one solid rock on which to stand, and that rock is Christ Jesus. Only when we admit that we have awe-fickle hearts will we begin to reach out for and cling to the forgiving, transforming, rescuing, and delivering grace of Jesus.

Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.

And as you begin to remember that God's mercy is your only hope and you meditate on the grandeur of the mercy that has been showered on you, you begin to want to help others experience that same mercy. You see, to the degree that you forget the mercy you've been given, it is easier for you to not give mercy to others. I daily need God's work of mercy in order to do his work of mercy.

The crisis of faith that often accompanies suffering is the result of a collision between our will and God's will and our glory and his glory.

When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.

Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.

Don't be discouraged at the spiritual war you're called to fight every day. The Lord almighty is with you and wars on your behalf.

Toda la historia del mundo, desde la creación, nos anuncia que Dios toma el pecado muy en serio. Él envió a Su Hijo a lidiar con el pecado y a reconstruir el puente entre Dios y Sus criaturas. No puedes tomar en serio tu relación con Dios si no tomas en serio tu pecado.

If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?

in the middle of the travail we all face one way or another, God is up to something good.

The commands, principles, and case studies of Scripture will take you only so far in your quest to figure out your life. There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on. In fact, you will face moments when what the God who has declared himself to be good brings into your life won't seem good. It may even seem bad, very bad.

God's grace invites you to be part of something that is far greater than your boldest and most expansive dream. His grace cuts a hole in your self-built prison and invites you to step into something so huge, so significant that only one word in the Bible can adequately capture it. That word is glory.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To

Faith comes to you as God's gift of grace: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God" (Eph. 2:8). Not only is your salvation a gift of God, but the faith to embrace it is his gift as well. But here is

We would rather be comfortable than to hold people accountable. We swindle ourselves into thinking that things are better than they are, and in so doing we compromise the calling and standards of the God we say we love and serve.