Quotes from Paul David Tripp

No debemos ofrecer a la gente un sistema de redención, un conjunto de ideas y principios. A la gente le ofrecemos un Redentor.

The scary deception of sin is that, at the point of sinning, sin doesn't look all that sinful.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

I propose that so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves.

This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest.

What was the mission of Jesus? What is the promise of the bloody cross and the empty tomb? What is the ultimate goal of the reigning King Christ? What is the scope of the work of redemption? What in the world is God working on? What does the final chapter of the grand redemptive story look like?

If you are God's child, you're either giving in to sin or giving way to the operation of rescuing grace, but your heart's never neutral.

No podemos tratar a la Biblia como una serie de conocimientos terapéuticos. Esto distorsiona el mensaje y no dará lugar a un cambio perdurable. Si un sistema puede darnos lo que necesitamos, Jesús nunca hubiera venido.

To speak as Christ's ambassadors, we must understand God's mission and how it offers us practical guidance for the things we face with family, friendships, and the body of Christ. It's Been His Mission from the Beginning

there's no such things as a purely horizontal complaint. If I am complaining about the insensitivity of my physician, the lack of attention I am getting from my pastor, and the fact that my friends lack sympathy and understanding, I'm not just complaining about those people but also about the God who ordained all of them to be in my life.

Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.

Lo que gobierne mi corazón moldeará la manera en que reaccione ante los momentos más tristes y más felices de la vida.

Somewhere in your life you are being called to wait. In your waiting, you are being given an opportunity to deepen and strengthen your faith. So, get up tomorrow and fill yourself with vitamins of truth. Nourish your heart with the nutrient food of the glory of God. Feed on the strength-giving meat of his goodness, grace, and love. Snack throughout the day on his power and his presence. And watch the muscles of your heart grow stronger as the days go by. Feed on your Lord and be strong!

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

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.

One of the dark delusions of sin is that it causes us at points to buy into the insane thought that we might be smarter than God.

We should never become achievement satisfied, because there is always more gospel work to do. But we must always remind one another that achievement is a spiritual minefield. Achievement has the power to change us—to change who we think we are and what we think we are capable of doing. Sadly, achievement can turn humble servant leaders into proud, controlling, and unapproachable mini-kings. But there is powerful, right-here, right-now grace for this struggle.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

There are moments when we get lost in the middle of God's story. We lose our minds, we lose our sense of direction, and we lose our remembrance of him.

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

In the beginning, God . . ." These are four thunderously important words. They really do change everything,

There is grace for our fickle and easily distracted hearts.

When you are satisfied with the Giver, because you have found in him the life you were looking for, you are freed from the ravenous quest for satisfaction that is the discouraging existence of so many people. Yes, it is true that your heart will rest only ever when it has found its rest in him.