Top 200 Tullian Tchividjian Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I’m not saying the Christian life is effortless; the real question is Where are we focusing our efforts? Are we working hard to perform? Or are we working hard to rest in Christ’s performance for us?”

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152. “When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel – and we, ironically, become more disobedient.”

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153. “We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.”

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154. “Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.”

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155. “Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.”

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156. “The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God’s grace.”

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157. “As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don’t have to face my own.”

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158. “What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.”

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159. “A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.”

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160. “Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.”

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161. “I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.”

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162. “If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.”

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163. “Christian growth does not involve becoming stronger and stronger, more and more competent every day. It involves becoming more and more aware of how weak and incompetent we are and how strong and competent Jesus was and continues to be for us.”

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164. “Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.”

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165. “We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.”

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166. “The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.”

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167. “The world isn’t scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.”

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168. “The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: “Just do it.” The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: “It is finished””

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169. “Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn’t have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.”

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170. “There’s nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.”

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171. “We don’t need answers and explanations as much as we need God’s presence in and through the suffering.”

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172. “Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.”

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173. “Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.”

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174. “The law may expose bad behavior, but only grace can win the heart.”

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175. “Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.”

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176. “Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ – when we die, we truly live.”

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177. “I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.”

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178. “Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.”

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179. “One surefire way to know you’re starting to grasp this message of grace is when you’re finally able to admit that you’re not the good guy – that you never were and apart from grace never will be.”

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180. “The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I’d been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.”

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181. “A theology of the cross accepts the difficult thing rather than immediately trying to change it or use it. It looks directly into pain, and “calls a thing what it is” instead of calling evil good and good evil.”

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182. “The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.”

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183. “The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.”

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184. “You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.”

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185. “I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.”

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186. “Once God saves us He doesn’t move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.”

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187. “When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.”

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188. “Thankfully, God’s restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could’ve been worse.”

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189. “In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.”

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190. “The way of God’s grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God’s law is inflexible.”

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191. “When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.”

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192. “Job’s unraveling wasn’t wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.”

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193. “I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.”

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194. “Whatever we may mean by ‘Christian growth,’ it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.”

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195. “The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.”

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196. “God ensures that his unworthy servant is made fully aware of this undeserved deliverance.”

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197. “The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.”

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198. “Grace doesn’t lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.”

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199. “Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.”

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200. “I showed him how the gospel frees us from this obsessive pressure to perform, this slavish demand to “become.” I showed him how the gospel declares that in Christ “we already are.”

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