Quotes from Paul David Tripp

Limits not only reveal his wisdom; they also express his love. Limits are not a prison; they are a grace. You cannot allow your leadership community to assign more work to a leader than can be done in the time allotted to him or her. You cannot ask a person to pile work upon work, day after day, without periodic Sabbaths of rest. There are few more important things for a spiritually healthy leadership community to consider than the time limits that God designed for his creation from the get-go.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

It gives you a reason to get up in the morning and to be able to sleep at night, no matter what you're facing at the moment.

He covers your past with his grace; he protects, provides for, and empowers you in the present; and he holds every aspect of your future in his sovereign and gracious hands.

En la Palabra hallamos esperanza cuando todo parece estar perdido; encontramos riquezas cuando nos sentimos pobres; recibimos Su poder cuando vemos nuestras debilidades; y recordamos Su gobierno cuando todo a nuestro alrededor parece estar fuera de control.

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power.

We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give. Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.

En lugar de que sea el amor de Dios moldeando mis relaciones y motivaciones, el amor por mí mismo toma el control.

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

solo cuando Su trono es más importante que el tuyo que vas a encontrar gozo en la difícil y humillante tarea del ministerio evangélico. Y Su gracia no se va a rendir hasta que nuestros corazones hayan sido completamente cautivados por Su gloria. Ahora bien, ¡ésa es una buena noticia!

Consideración. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona vea? Confesión. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona reconozca y confiese? Compromiso. ¿A qué nuevas formas de vida está llamando Dios a esta persona? Cambio. ¿Cómo deben aplicarse estos nuevos compromisos a la vida diaria?

there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.