Top 250 Paul David Tripp Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?”

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

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

— Paul David Tripp

204. “Sin holds the physical glories of the here-and-now world in front of you and tells you that they are the only glories worth living for. Sin shrinks your zeal and narrows your vision. Sin makes it hard to see beyond the borders of your own life. Grace enables you to tear down fences of self-focus, self-defensiveness, and self-protection so you can reach out to God and others. In so doing you will not only experience true glory, but you will recapture your true humanity.”

— Paul David Tripp

205. “Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.”

— Paul David Tripp

206. “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.”

— Paul David Tripp

207. “He knows that his plan will confuse and confound you. And he knows that real rest cannot be found in understanding. Real rest is found in trust.”

— Paul David Tripp

208. “How many believers really live a lifestyle that results from believing that God has graced them to be not just recipients of the work of his kingdom but instruments of the work of the kingdom as well? When you believe this, you live with a constant ministry mentality that results in an everyday ministry lifestyle.”

— Paul David Tripp

209. “He graces you with good things because he is good, not because you are.”

— Paul David Tripp

210. “Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.”

— Paul David Tripp

211. “You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.”

— Paul David Tripp

212. “Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.”

— Paul David Tripp

213. “If you could defeat sin by separating yourself from its external manifestations, Jesus would never have needed to come.”

— Paul David Tripp

214. “He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.”

— Paul David Tripp

215. “The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn’t your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.”

— Paul David Tripp

216. “The question is not if we worship, but what we give our hearts to worship.”

— Paul David Tripp

217. “Suffering has the power to expose what you have been trusting all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn’t really in your Savior after all. It was humbling to confess that what I thought was faith was actually self-reliance.”

— Paul David Tripp

218. “This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.”

— Paul David Tripp

219. “It is vital to know that faith is not just an action of your brain; it’s an investment of your life.”

— Paul David Tripp

220. “When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.”

— Paul David Tripp

221. “When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?”

— Paul David Tripp

222. “If you’re God’s child, you can rest assured today that both your standing before God and his rule on your behalf are sure and secure.”

— Paul David Tripp

223. “If praise is celebrating God’s awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.”

— Paul David Tripp

224. “You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.”

— Paul David Tripp

225. “It was humbling to admit that I wasn’t living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.”

— Paul David Tripp

226. “He knows that parents who admit that they are inadequate and run to God make the best parents.”

— Paul David Tripp

227. “Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.”

— Paul David Tripp

228. “True humanity is always connected to glory, and true glory can only be found in the One who is glory, the Lord.”

— Paul David Tripp

229. “Your suffering is not a sign that you’ve been forsaken; rather, it’s a sign that you live in a world that doesn’t function the way God intended and is in need of complete renewal.”

— Paul David Tripp

230. “Christ has already placed in my storehouse everything that I need.”

— Paul David Tripp

231. “On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away. Your acceptance has not been, nor will it ever be, based on your performance.”

— Paul David Tripp

232. “The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.”

— Paul David Tripp

233. “The Bible tells you that real peace is found in resting in the wisdom of the One who holds all of your “what-ifs” and “if-onlys” in his loving hands.”

— Paul David Tripp

234. “The real burdens of suffering are made significantly more difficult when you carry them in a heart spiritually weakened by bitterness.”

— Paul David Tripp

235. “This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.”

— Paul David Tripp

236. “There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more – a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.”

— Paul David Tripp

237. “Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.”

— Paul David Tripp

238. “Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren’t designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.”

— Paul David Tripp

239. “I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by.”

— Paul David Tripp

240. “Bitterness so obstructs your view of blessing that you can’t see it anymore. Bitterness in your heart is like being in the darkness of your basement on a day when the sun is shining and saying, “I hate the fact that I live in a world of darkness.” You don’t actually live in a dark world; rather, the structure around you and above you is obstructing your view of the sun. When envy becomes the soil in which bitterness grows, your suffering will become a lens through which you look at everything.”

— Paul David Tripp

241. “Our blessings are never payment for the good we’ve done, and our trials are never punishment for the wrongs we’ve done. This cause-and-effect equation is always bad spiritual math.”

— Paul David Tripp

242. “Scripture never looks down on the sufferer, it never mocks his pain, it never turns a deaf ear to his cries, and it never condemns him for his struggle. It presents to the sufferer a God who understands, who cares, who invites us to come to him for help, and who promises one day to end all suffering of any kind once and forever.”

— Paul David Tripp

243. “Sadly, many of us aren’t gripped by the stunningly magnificent events and truths of the birth of Jesus anymore. Sadly, many of us are no longer gripped by wonder as we consider what this story tells us about the character and plan of God. Sadly, many of us are no longer humbled by what the incarnation of Jesus tells us about ourselves. We walk by the garden of the incarnation, but we don’t see the roses of grace anymore. Our eyes have gone lazy and our hearts have grown cold.”

— Paul David Tripp

244. “Wherever your story takes you, you’ll never arrive there first, because your Lord is already there in sovereign presence and power, and he rules that place in infinite wisdom and holiness.”

— Paul David Tripp

245. “One of God’s sweetest gifts to us between the “already” of our conversion and the “not yet” of our homegoing is the gift of the body of Christ. God makes his invisible grace visible by sending people of grace to give grace to people who need grace. His people are meant to be the look on his face, the touch of his hand, the sound of his voice, the evidence of his love, the picture of his presence, and the visible demonstration of his faithfulness.”

— Paul David Tripp

246. “I want to get you to think about and finally find comfort in the fact that our experience of suffering is never just physical. The pain that stops us in our tracks, that makes us want to pull the covers over our head and not face the day, and at moments makes us wish that we could die, is never just physical.”

— Paul David Tripp

247. “When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.”

— Paul David Tripp

248. “Because doubt drives us to know and understand, it has the power to lead you to the One who knows and understands everything. Your capacity to doubt can drive you to God, but not always. This is why we need to talk about doubt, because this God-given capacity, wrongly functioning, can be disastrous.”

— Paul David Tripp

249. “Good biblical busyness is a powerful defense against debilitating doubt. The more you give yourself to the devotional, discipleship, and missional things God calls all his children to, the more you will be reminded of the enormous blessing and eternal importance of what it means to be a child of God and a part of God’s unstoppable mission of redemption.”

— Paul David Tripp

250. “Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me – longing, readiness, and hope.”

— Paul David Tripp