403 Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.

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

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

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

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