Tullian Tchividjian Quotes
The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
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.
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.
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.
The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.
If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.
Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.
I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.
Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.
Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.
It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.
We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning
God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.
The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)
What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.
An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else.
