Quotes from Paul David Tripp

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

The cost of forgiveness is great, but the harvest of forgiveness is a beautiful thing,

God's call to obey is itself a grace. In this call, he is actively rescuing you from you.

The church is in desperate need of a leadership community whose function is not just structured to achieve with efficiency but is more deeply shaped by the comforts and calls of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

When you don't understand what's going on, run to God's goodness rather than questioning whether it exists.

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

Real, biblical, self-sacrificing, God-honoring love never compromises what God says is right and true. Truth and love are inextricably bound together. Love that compromises truth simply isn't love. Truth without love ceases to be truth because it gets bent and twisted by other human agendas.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.

most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because he has failed to deliver what he promised, They're angry because he has failed to deliver what they have craved, expected or demanded.

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

The cross is evidence that in the hands of the Redeemer, moments of apparent defeat become wonderful moments of grace and victory.

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.

Good biblical busyness is a powerful defense against debilitating doubt. The more you give yourself to the devotional, discipleship, and missional things God calls all his children to, the more you will be reminded of the enormous blessing and eternal importance of what it means to be a child of God and a part of God's unstoppable mission of redemption.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

The largest body of content in the psalms is given to lament, in which the psalmist "laments" or mourns the situation he is in and the distress he is facing.

An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.

grace is greater than all of the sin we're grappling with.

Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.