Quotes about Life
As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren't able to understand.
— Paul David Tripp
You don't need to read a mystery novel; your life is a mystery to you.
— Paul David Tripp
What is that lie? It is the lie that was first told in the garden of Eden—the false promise that life, heart-satisfying life, could be found somewhere outside the Creator. It is the lie of lies, the cruelest lie ever told. If you believe it, it will not only leave you empty and discouraged, but it will set your life on a course of destruction.
— Paul David Tripp
As I've said before, I really do love the honesty of the Bible. I don't need vacuous religious platitudes that delude me into thinking that life is better than it really is. I don't need a form of faith
— Paul David Tripp
Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another.
— Paul David Tripp
A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude. When I really reflect on who I am, when I take time to consider the grace that I couldn't have earned, achieved, or deserved but which has been lavished on me, and when I remember that that grace came at the cost of the life of another, then I am joyfully motivated to give that grace to others.
— Paul David Tripp
even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic. Yes, our lives are out of our control, but that doesn't mean they are out of control. No, our lives are under the careful administration of the One who had the wisdom and power to be the great Author of it all.
— Paul David Tripp
Rebellion never gives life. Self-rule never brings freedom. So grace has worked to rescue me from me, so that I can know the true freedom of serving him.
— Paul David Tripp
the theology of the Word of God is not an end in itself but a means to an end, and that end is a radically grace-transformed life.
— Paul David Tripp
Prayer is surrender to the reality that there is wisdom greater than ours. Prayer confronts us with the fact that we are not as smart as we tend to think we are. It reminds us that there is so much we don't know or understand. It tells us that life is not found in our limited understanding, but in surrendering our lives to the care of the One whose understanding spans from before origin to beyond destiny and includes everything in between.
— Paul David Tripp
Prayer is abandoning hope of independent capability and believing that in Christ you're given everything you need for life and godliness.
— Paul David Tripp
God not only gives you the grace to believe for your salvation, but he also works to enable you to live by faith.
— Paul David Tripp