Tullian Tchividjian Quotes about Grace - Page 2

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

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

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.