Top 200 Tullian Tchividjian Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn’t equal the absence of God.”

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2. “Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.”

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3. “To progress is always to begin again.”

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4. “Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.”

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5. “We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.”

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6. “God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.”

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7. “Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.”

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8. “Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable...”

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9. “Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ’s accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.”

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10. “The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.”

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11. “When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, “Sin and resistance””

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12. “Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”

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13. “Here’s one way I can know that I’ve forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.”

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14. “The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.”

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15. “If we’re not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we’re not preaching the same message Jesus preached.”

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16. “Sometimes God has to remind you that you’re weak so that you can be set free from your “self-sufficiency.””

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17. “God’s ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.”

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18. “Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.”

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19. “The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it’s about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.”

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20. “When you don’t have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you’re free to take great risks without fear or reservation.”

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21. “A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not ‘let go and let God,’ it’s ‘trust God and get going.’”

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22. “Christianity is not “Jesus is our example.” Christianity is “Jesus is our substitute.””

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23. “God’s capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God’s grace reaches farther. It’s a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind’s Creator.”

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24. “Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.”

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25. “Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.”

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26. “If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.”

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27. “We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.”

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28. “In ‘Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,’ I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God’s grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.”

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29. “The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.”

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30. “I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.”

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31. “There are a still lot of people in today’s church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.”

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32. “Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.”

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33. “Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.”

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34. “Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.”

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35. “The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands – introducing chaos and freedom.”

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36. “Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God’s law and a lite view of your own sin.”

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37. “The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.”

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38. “I didn’t realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn’t even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.”

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39. “God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.”

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40. “There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.”

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41. “While our sin reaches far, God’s grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.”

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42. “Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.”

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43. “Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.”

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44. “God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!”

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45. “Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.”

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46. “The law is God’s first word; the gospel is God’s final word.”

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47. “Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.”

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48. “Like Adam and Eve, each time we sin we’re choosing to be our own deity. We’re placing ultimate trust in ourselves, not in our Creator and Savior and Lord.”

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49. “I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.”

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50. “The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.”

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