Tullian Tchividjian Quotes about Grace

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.

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

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

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

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.

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

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

The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.

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

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

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.