Top 250 Paul David Tripp Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “This is what sin does to us all. At a deep and often unnoticed level, sin replaces worship of God with worship of self. It replaces submission with self-rule. It replaces gratitude with demands for more. It replaces faith with self-reliance. It replaces vertical joy with horizontal envy. It replaces a rest in God’s sovereignty with a quest for personal control. We live for our glory. We set up our rules. We ask others to serve our agenda.”

— Paul David Tripp

152. “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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153. “A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.”

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154. “It is grace to not be paralyzed by regret. The cross teaches that you are not stuck, not cursed to pay forever for your past.”

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

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156. “You don’t have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells.”

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157. “The call is to do theology in loving community with other people.”

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158. “There’s not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God’s abundant mercies are not new.”

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159. “You need to preach a gospel that finds its hope not in your understanding and ability but in a God who is grand and glorious in every way and who has invaded your life and ministry by his grace.”

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160. “Change is not found in defending our righteousness, but in admitting our weakness and crying for help.”

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161. “Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.”

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162. “The blinding ability of sin is so powerful and persuasive that you and I literally need daily intervention.”

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163. “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.”

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164. “Midlife doesn’t introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.”

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165. “God is using the difficulties of the here and now to transform you, that is, to rescue you from you. And because he loves you, he will willingly interrupt or compromise your momentary happiness in order to accomplish one more step in the process of rescue and transformation, which he is unshakably committed to.”

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166. “As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy’s tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can’t avoid.”

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

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168. “In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.”

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169. “How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?”

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170. “We rarely do anything with on single motive.”

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

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172. “There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus.”

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173. “Tear up your list and throw it away – what God has planned for you is better than anything you’ve dreamed of for yourself.”

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174. “We all face things that appear to make little sense and don’t seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.”

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175. “Change begins at the level of the heart.”

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176. “For the church to be the church – not just a place where you can find ministry but where the people are a ministering community – every believer must accept his or her role in the life of every other believer.”

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177. “What do I really want in life: the success of God’s agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?”

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178. “The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.”

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179. “Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.”

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

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181. “I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “It’s important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.”

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184. “One of the most important questions you could ask is: “What is God doing in the here and now?”

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185. “You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you’re more like them than unlike them.”

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186. “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.”

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187. “Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.”

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188. “See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.”

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189. “We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.”

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190. “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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191. “Creation was made to be one big finger pointing you to the One who alone has the ability to satisfy your heart.”

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192. “Remember, when you’re sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don’t give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.”

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193. “There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.”

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194. “We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.”

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195. “He is not only your indwelling Savior, he is your reigning King. He does in you what you could not do for yourself and he does outside of you what you have no power or authority to do.”

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196. “You’ll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you’re more righteous than you actually are.”

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197. “What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?”

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198. “Adam and Eve weren’t just after God’s forbidden fruit; they were after God’s position.”

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199. “It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.”

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200. “Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.”

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