Top 200 Tullian Tchividjian Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God’s chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.”

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52. “Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.”

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53. “The gospel doesn’t make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.”

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54. “The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.”

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55. “Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It’s one-way love.”

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56. “Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.”

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57. “Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.”

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58. “The deepest fear we have, ‘the fear beneath all fears,’ is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.”

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59. “If you look at the gospel, it just doesn’t break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel’s power is reconciliation.”

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60. “The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.”

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61. “Daily Christian living, in other words, is daily Christian dying: dying to our trivial comforts, soul-shrinking conveniences, arrogant preferences, and self-centered entitlements, and living for something much larger than what makes us comfortable and safe.”

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62. “Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.”

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63. “Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.”

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64. “Jesus has done everything for you.”

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65. “Luther also said that one of our biggest problems was our own “good” works. They obscure our need for a Savior. “At the cross,” said Gerhard Forde, “God has stormed the last bastion of the self, the last presumption that you were really going to do something for him.” Genuine freedom awaits all who stop trusting in their own work and start trusting in Christ’s work.”

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66. “The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.”

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67. “The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves – a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.”

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68. “My struggle isn’t believing my performance can earn God’s favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God’s favor.”

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69. “If we read the Bible asking first, ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of asking ‘What has Jesus done?’ we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.”

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70. “God does everything through people who understand they’re nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they’re everything.”

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71. “In those moments when I’m obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.”

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72. “God’s acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.”

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73. “Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.”

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74. “Whether it’s a Christian or a non-Christian, there’s nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can’t make it on our own, that we need help, that we’re broken.”

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75. “Explanations are a substitute for trust.”

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76. “When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.”

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77. “When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God’s love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.”

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78. “We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”

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79. “It’s better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.”

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80. “The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.”

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81. “Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.”

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82. “People who haven’t experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.”

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83. “I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don’t need the gospel, it’s simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.”

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84. “If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.”

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85. “The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.”

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86. “The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.”

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87. “The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.”

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88. “My job is not to show my children that I’m the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.”

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89. “The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.”

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90. “My daily sins require daily distribution of God’s grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don’t deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.”

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91. “Don’t get me wrong – what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.”

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92. “The gospel doesn’t just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There’s no reason to move beyond the gospel. There’s only movement more into it.”

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93. “Being the middle child, I couldn’t figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn’t figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.”

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94. “The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace.”

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95. “Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.”

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96. “God’s grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I’ll do that for you. Or if you don’t do this for me, I won’t do that for you. And God’s grace works in a completely different direction.”

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97. “I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.”

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98. “Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.”

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99. “Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we’re essentially saying in that moment that, “I don’t need you God. I don’t want you God. I like my way better than your way.””

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100. “I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I’m ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I’ve learned this freeing truth: I don’t need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.”

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