Quotes about Humility
If my heart is ever going to be freed of grumbling and ruled by gratitude, I need your grace: grace to remember, grace to see, grace that produces a heart of humble joy.
- Paul David Tripp
I understand why many people who call themselves Christians are not excited about grace. If you think your environment is your problem, you won't esteem grace, but once you admit that you're your biggest problem, you will celebrate the grace that rescues you from you.
- Paul David Tripp
Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.
- Paul David Tripp
When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?
- Paul David Tripp
You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.
- Paul David Tripp
God's grace frees you from having to deny your weaknesses.
- Paul David Tripp
Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.
- Paul David Tripp
fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.
- Paul David Tripp
Suffering has the power to expose what you have been trusting all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn't really in your Savior after all. It was humbling to confess that what I thought was faith was actually self-reliance
- Paul David Tripp
When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.
- Paul David Tripp
Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.
- Paul David Tripp
It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.
- Paul David Tripp