Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

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.

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

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

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

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

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

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

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

Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.

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

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

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

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

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

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

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

Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

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

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

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