403 Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

Gospel only sounds good to a heart that knows it is bad. For people who think they’re good, grace is frustrating. For people who know they’re not, grace is freeing.

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

I showed him how the gospel frees us from this obsessive pressure to perform, this slavish demand to “become.” I showed him how the gospel declares that in Christ “we already are.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God’s love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

A theology of the cross accepts the difficult thing rather than immediately trying to change it or use it. It looks directly into pain, and “calls a thing what it is” instead of calling evil good and good evil.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don’t need the gospel, it’s simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

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 great and merciful surprise is that we come to God not by doing it right but by doing it wrong!

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it’s time to rethink some stuff.