Quotes about Guidance
You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship. To be wise, you first need to be rescued from you. You need to be given a new heart, one that is needy, humble, seeking, and ready to get from above what you can't find on this earth. And then you need to be brought into a relationship with the One who is wisdom.
— Paul David Tripp
All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.
— Paul David Tripp
parenting is not first about what we want for our children or from our children, but about what God in grace has planned to do through us in our children.
— Paul David Tripp
No parent is able to escape the deceiving power of sin. All parents need to understand the power of spiritual blindness as they think of the task that God has called them to.
— Paul David Tripp
Successful parenting is the rightful, God-ordained loss of control. The goal of parenting is to work ourselves out of a job. The goal of parenting is to raise children who were once totally dependent on us to be independent, mature people who, with reliance on God and proper connectedness to the Christian community, are able to stand on their own two feet.
— Paul David Tripp
May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.
— Paul David Tripp
You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources.
— Paul David Tripp
You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.
— Paul David Tripp
You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.
— Paul David Tripp
Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.
— Paul David Tripp
Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.
— Paul David Tripp
To speak as Christ's ambassadors, we must understand God's mission and how it offers us practical guidance for the things we face with family, friendships, and the body of Christ. It's Been His Mission from the Beginning
— Paul David Tripp