Top 250 Paul David Tripp Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

2. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

3. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

4. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

6. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

7. “Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you.”

— Paul David Tripp

8. “Our sin is what separates us from God, but it’s our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.”

— Paul David Tripp

9. “Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.”

— Paul David Tripp

10. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

11. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

12. “Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that’s been exposed.”

— Paul David Tripp

13. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

14. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

15. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

16. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

17. “You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don’t. Everybody worships; it’s just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.”

— Paul David Tripp

18. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

19. “Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.”

— Paul David Tripp

20. “No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do. It’s a fact that you and I are in an endless conversation with ourselves.”

— Paul David Tripp

21. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

22. “God’s grace doesn’t always come in comfortable forms. But it’s still grace, and it’s still evidence that He loves us.”

— Paul David Tripp

23. “The Bible isn’t a storybook with many heroes. No, there’s only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer – Jesus.”

— Paul David Tripp

24. “The great battle of parenting is not the battle of behavior; it’s the battle for what kind of awe will rule children’s hearts.”

— Paul David Tripp

25. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

26. “Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan’s lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.”

— Paul David Tripp

27. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

28. “God hasn’t just sent you to do his work in the lives of your children; he will use the lives of your children to advance his work in you.”

— Paul David Tripp

29. “God is with you in your moments of darkness because he will never leave you. But your darkness isn’t dark to him. Your mysteries aren’t mysterious to him. Your surprises don’t surprise him. He understands all the things that confuse you the most.”

— Paul David Tripp

30. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

31. “Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.”

— Paul David Tripp

32. “Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.”

— Paul David Tripp

33. “Theology without love simply is very bad theology.”

— Paul David Tripp

34. “The DNA of joy is gratitude.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

36. “When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.”

— Paul David Tripp

37. “We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.”

— Paul David Tripp

38. “None of us gets our dream in the way that we dreamt it, because none of us is writing our own story. God, in his love, writes a better story than we could ever write for ourselves. He has a better dream than the one we conceive. He knows much better than we do what is best for us. He will take us places that we never intended to go because, in doing so, we become more of what he re-created us in Christ to be.”

— Paul David Tripp

39. “When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule. You won’t need the church to schedule ministry for you; you will approach work, marriage, parenting, extended family, friendships, and community with a ministry mentality.”

— Paul David Tripp

40. “God’s call to obey is itself a grace. In this call, he is actively rescuing you from you.”

— Paul David Tripp

41. “It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.”

— Paul David Tripp

42. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

43. “Parents, if your eyes ever see or your ears ever hear the sin and weakness of your children, it’s never an accident, it’s never a hassle, it’s never an interruption; it’s always grace. God loves your children and because he does, he has placed them in a family of faith so that you can be his tool of convicting, forgiving, and transforming grace.”

— Paul David Tripp

44. “Remember, waiting isn’t just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait, but also about what you will become as you wait.”

— Paul David Tripp

45. “Yes, it is true – God will remain faithful even when you’re not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you’re doing.”

— Paul David Tripp

46. “You see, God hasn’t promised you a good job or great kids. He hasn’t promised you an easy marriage and a comfortable place to live. He hasn’t promised you physical health and a good church to attend. He hasn’t promised that you would experience affluence and be surrounded by things that entertain you. What he has promised is that he will complete the work that he has begun in you.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

48. “If you are in Christ, you’ve been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.”

— Paul David Tripp

49. “When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.”

— Paul David Tripp

50. “Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.”

— Paul David Tripp