Top 250 Paul David Tripp Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

152. “Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.”

— Paul David Tripp

153. “When your child wonders about what is right and what is wrong, don’t just threaten him with the law of God; woo him with the sweet music of the grace of God. When she is struggling with what.”

— Paul David Tripp

154. “This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it’s me. My children don’t cause me to do and say what I do and say. No, the cause of my actions is found inside my own heart. My children are simply the occasion where my heart reveals itself in words and actions. So I need much more than just rescue and relief from my children; I need rescue from me. This is why Jesus came, to provide us with the rescue that we all need but that we cannot provide for ourselves.”

— Paul David Tripp

155. “You do not need to swindle yourself into thinking that you are strong. You can face your weakness with joy because you know that you have been given grace for that weakness; grace that is not a thing, but a person – the Holy Spirit, who makes you the place where he dwells in power.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

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

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158. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

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

— Paul David Tripp

161. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

163. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

166. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

170. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

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

— Paul David Tripp

178. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

180. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

181. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

183. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

185. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

186. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

193. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

194. “It takes God’s rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his.”

— Paul David Tripp

195. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

196. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

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199. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp