259 Quotes by Paul David Tripp

The Bible isn’t a storybook with many heroes. No, there’s only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer – Jesus.

You can tell yourself that God’s not fair, or you can thank Him that He’s not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan’s lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.

The DNA of joy is gratitude.

God is with you in your moments of darkness because he will never leave you. But your darkness isn’t dark to him. Your mysteries aren’t mysterious to him. Your surprises don’t surprise him. He understands all the things that confuse you the most.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that’s been exposed.