Top 200 Tullian Tchividjian Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.”

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202. “In fact, most of us convince ourselves that we’re actually honoring Jesus with our rules and regulations, that we’re paying attention to him and pleasing him more than ever. But all the while, we’re only demonstrating that we believe in ourselves much more than we do in Jesus. Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.”

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203. “I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren’t surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn’t listen to surfer music.”

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204. “Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you’ve been on to more dearly than Him.”

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205. “As long as we are seeking our worth in anything and everything but the gospel of God’s grace, we will keep seeking and keep wearing ourselves out in the process. But in Christ’s finished work is ultimate and eternal validation. And ultimate and eternal rest.”

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206. “God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway.”

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207. “The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.”

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208. “What I’m most deeply grateful for is that God’s love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride on our resolve but on Jesus’s resolve for us. The gospel is the good news announcing Jesus’s infallible devotion to us despite our inconsistent devotion to Him. The gospel is not a command to hang on to Jesus; it’s a promise that no matter how weak and unsuccessful our faith and efforts may be, God is always holding on to us.”

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209. “Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the “God is sovereign” card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.”

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210. “To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible’s radically disproportionate focus on God’s saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.”

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211. “The law offends us because it tells us what to do – and most of the time, we hate anyone telling us what to do. But ironically, grace offends us even more, because it tells us that there is nothing we can do, that everything has already been done. And if there is something we hate more than being told what to do, it’s being told that we can’t do anything, that we can’t earn anything – that we are helpless, weak, and needy.”

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212. “Many Christians think that God is perpetually disappointed with them. But because of what Jesus did for us on the cross, God sees us as friends and children, not as enemies and strangers. God is a good Father, and because we’re with Jesus, God’s affection for us is unchanging and His approval of us is forever.”

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213. “If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it’s time to rethink some stuff.”

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214. “Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.”

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215. “God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.”

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216. “I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.”

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217. “The gospel is good news to those who know they don’t measure up. It’s offensive to those who think they do.”

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218. “The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.”

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219. “The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God not by doing it right but by doing it wrong!”

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220. “The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God’s rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of “How” and “Why” to the freedom of “Who?””

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221. “First, we need to understand theologically that the gospel doesn’t just ignite the Christian life, but it’s also the fuel that keeps Christians going and growing every day.”

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222. “Gospel only sounds good to a heart that knows it is bad. For people who think they’re good, grace is frustrating. For people who know they’re not, grace is freeing.”

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223. “My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.”

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224. “If the depths of everyone’s sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.”

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225. “Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.”

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226. “The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.”

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227. “An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.”

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228. “Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God’s grace reaches farther.”

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229. “We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.”

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230. “Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!”

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231. “People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.”

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232. “The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.”

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233. “Cheer up; you’re a lot worse off than you think you are, but in Jesus you’re far more loved than you ever could have imagined.”

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234. “The banner under which the Christian lives reads, “It is finished.”

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235. “As C. S. Lewis reminded us in Surprised by Joy, “The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”

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236. “Living for anything else besides God leads to death, not freedom.”

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237. “A tribal mindset is antithetical to the gospel. The gospel demands that we be missional, because the gospel is the story of God sacrificing himself for his enemies.”

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