Paul David Tripp Quotes

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• God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

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  Pain, Order, Design

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• We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

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  Goal, Forget, Holy

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• God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

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  His Love, Instruments, Lives Of Others

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• The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.

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  Heart, Guarantees That, Evil

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• Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

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  Strength, Christian, Perfect

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• 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.

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  Running, Children, Waiting

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• We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.

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  Heart, People, Admitting

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• If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

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  Eye, Heart, Trying

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• When Christ is my hope, he becomes the one thing in which I have confidence. I act on his wisdom and bank on his grace. I trust his promises and I rely on his presence. And I pursue all the good things that he has promised me simply because I trust him. So, I am not manipulating, controlling, or threatening my way through life to get what I want, because I have found what I want in Christ. He is my hope.

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  Grace, Promise, Way

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• Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

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  Sacrifice, Love Is, Self

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• Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

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  Heart, Issues, Grace

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2015

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• The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

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  People, Church, And Love

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• Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

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  Faces, Problem, Asking For Forgiveness

  Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.161, David C Cook

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• Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

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  Celebration, Worship, Born

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Jun 09, 2013

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• The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

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  Promise, Flaws, Our Relationship

  Timothy S. Lane, Paul David Tripp (2006). “Relationships: A Mess Worth Making”, p.7, David C Cook

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• The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

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  Loss, Suffering, News

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• God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.

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  Song, Heart, Giving

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• The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.

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  Views, Appreciate, Grace

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• Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Loneliness, Inability

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• You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

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  Would Be, Not Fair, Doomed

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Aug 31, 2013

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• Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.

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  Beautiful, Dark, Grace

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Apr 27, 2015

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• Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

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  Blessing, Envy, Grace

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Feb 21, 2014

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• Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.

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  Sin, Wrong Things, Serving

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• Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

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  People, Judging, Done

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• We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

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  Kings, Self, Desire

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