Tullian Tchividjian Quotes - Page 3

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

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

Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.

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

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

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.

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

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

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

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

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

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

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

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

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

Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

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

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.

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.

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.