403 Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

And there’s nothing more enslaving than self-salvation projects. They never end because they never work. The story of David and Goliath is meant to point us to the one true hero, the one hero who is perfect at all times.

It’s when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.

God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway.

There’s absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

Luther also said that one of our biggest problems was our own “good” works. They obscure our need for a Savior. “At the cross,” said Gerhard Forde, “God has stormed the last bastion of the self, the last presumption that you were really going to do something for him.” Genuine freedom awaits all who stop trusting in their own work and start trusting in Christ’s work.

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

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn’t make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn’t produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Christian growth doesn’t happen by first behaving better, but by believing better – believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have constructed for yourself, or that others have constructed for you – even the one that your church has constructed for you.