Top 250 Paul David Tripp Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Real, sturdy, lasting peace, peace that doesn’t rise and fall with circumstances, isn’t to be found in picking apart your life until you have understood all of the components. You will never understand it all because God, for your good and his glory, keeps some of it shrouded in mystery.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

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54. “In a real way, things are worse than you ever thought they could be, but God’s grace is greater than you could ever have imagined it would be. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.”

— Paul David Tripp

55. “Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.”

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56. “If my heart is ever going to be freed of grumbling and ruled by gratitude, I need your grace: grace to remember, grace to see, grace that produces a heart of humble joy.”

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57. “On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. PSALM 145:5.”

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58. “Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.”

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59. “The joy or complaint of your heart always shapes your willingness to trust God and to do his will.”

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60. “To think today, when your life doesn’t work as planned, that it’s out of control is to forget that Jesus reigns for your sake and his glory.”

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61. “As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.”

— Paul David Tripp

62. “I came to see that I was wired for awe, that awe of something sits at the bottom of everything I say and do. But I wasn’t just wired for awe. I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul. No other awe can give my heart the peace, rest, and security that it seeks. I came to see that I needed to trace awe of God down to the most mundane of human decisions and activities.”

— Paul David Tripp

63. “The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing – that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love.”

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64. “Whatever sits on the other side of your “if-only” is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.”

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65. “You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.”

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66. “Grace doesn’t make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.”

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67. “Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.”

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68. “There simply aren’t any grand moments in life, and we surely don’t live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.”

— Paul David Tripp

69. “I am my biggest marital problem.”

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70. “Fear in a believer is a function of forgetfulness. To the degree that you forget who God is, who you are as his child, and what you have been given by his grace, fear is your default emotion.”

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71. “You are constantly preaching to yourself some kind of gospel. You preach to yourself an anti-gospel of your own righteousness, power, and wisdom, or you preach to yourself the true gospel of deep spiritual need and sufficient grace. You preach to yourself an anti-gospel of aloneness and inability, or you preach to yourself the true gospel of the presence, provisions, and power of an ever-present Christ.”

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72. “Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life. This.”

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73. “The Christmas story is not intended to teach you a bunch of moral lessons that require no history to be helpful. It’s a story that is rooted in real history, real acts of God that are intended to provide for you and me the one thing we desperately need: moral rescue. The Christmas story is about a God of glorious grace on the march, invading human history with the grace of redemption.”

— Paul David Tripp

74. “Yes, your life is messy and hard, but that’s not a failure of the plan; it is the plan. It’s God working to complete what he’s begun in you.”

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75. “True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.”

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76. “Psalm 27 tells that even in the middle of difficulties that we do not understand nor seem able to escape, we have reason to take heart and have hope.”

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77. “Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.”

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

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79. “One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God’s mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.”

— Paul David Tripp

80. “The best theology will not remove mystery from your life, so rest is found in trusting the One who rules, is all, and knows no mystery.”

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81. “You obey not to get God’s attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.”

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82. “Be thankful his majesty is your protection, his glory is your motivation, his grace is your help, and his wisdom is your direction. He is infinitely smarter than you and me in our most brilliant moments.”

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83. “In grace, he leads you where you didn’t plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn’t achieve on your own.”

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84. “We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent – the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.”

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85. “I understand why many people who call themselves Christians are not excited about grace. If you think your environment is your problem, you won’t esteem grace, but once you admit that you’re your biggest problem, you will celebrate the grace that rescues you from you.”

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86. “Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.”

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87. “Humility means you love serving more than you crave leading.”

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88. “We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.”

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89. “Think about this. The One who created and controls the world, the One who is the ultimate definition of what is loving, true, and good, and the One who alone has the power to finally defeat sin has chosen, because of his grace, to wrap his arms of faithful love and protection around you, and he will not let you go. You can take your life off your shoulders because God has placed it on his.”

— Paul David Tripp

90. “People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.”

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91. “Wisdom is the fruit of worship, and received on bended knee. It is the product of a life lived in submission to the One who is wisdom, Christ.”

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

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93. “The Psalms welcome us to a faith where God’s agenda is more important than ours and where we are asked to live out our faith in the context of a disastrously broken world. But this is also precisely where we experience the highest personal joys, as we put our hope in the covenant love of the Lord and make the pursuit of his glory the goal of our lives.”

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94. “If you are not requiring yourself to get your deepest sense of well-being vertically, you will shop for it horizontally, and you will always come up empty.”

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95. “Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can’t help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.”

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96. “We simply weren’t constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.”

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97. “Your job is be God’s tool for the purpose of forming the image of God’s Son in your children.”

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98. “You’re not generally angry because things are in the way of God and his kingdom purposes. You’re angry because something or someone has gotten in the way of something you crave, something you think will inspire contentment, satisfaction, or happiness in you. Your heart is desperate to be inspired, and you get mad when your pursuits are blocked. Where you look for awe will fundamentally control the thoughts and emotions of your heart in ways you normally don’t even realize.”

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99. “It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There’s a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.”

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100. “So, when you are sinned against or when the fallen world breaks your door down, don’t lash out or run away. Stand in your weakness and confusion and say, “I am not alone. God is with me, and he is faithful, powerful, and willing.” You can be realistic and hopeful at the very same time. Realistic expectations are not about hope without honesty, and they are not about honesty without hope. Realism is found at the intersection of unabashed honesty and uncompromising hope.”

— Paul David Tripp