Tullian Tchividjian Quotes - Page 5

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

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

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.

Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.

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.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

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.

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.

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

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

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.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.