Quotes about Grace
The birth of Jesus is a sure sign that God will act where we cannot act, and he will act with life-giving grace. Celebrate that Jesus came to give life, because it's the one gift we could never, ever give ourselves.
- Paul David Tripp
Sin has driven us out of the garden, but grace drives us right into the Father's arms.
- Paul David Tripp
For the believer, harsh, critical, impatient, and irritated responses to others are always connected to forgetting or denying who we are and what we have been given in Jesus.
- Paul David Tripp
Humility means the willingness to look in the mirror of God's Word and being glad that whatever we see there has already been covered by the blood of Jesus.
- Paul David Tripp
Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that we deserve what another has been given, when, in fact, you and I deserve nothing.
- Paul David Tripp
If you obey for a thousand years, you're no more accepted than when you first believed; your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.
- Paul David Tripp
It's so easy to fail to live in light of the fact that Jesus didn't die just for your past forgiveness (praise God that he did) or your future resurrection (what hope!), but also for everything you are facing in the here and now.
- Paul David Tripp
It's a tragedy when we praise God for his grace on Sunday and deny our need for that grace the rest of the week. Face
- Paul David Tripp
I mean you should look every day for every opportunity to point your needy kids to the presence, promises, power, and grace of Jesus.
- Paul David Tripp
You and I need to say it to ourselves again and again. We need to look in the mirror and make the confession as part of our morning routine. Here's what we all need to say: "I am not a grace graduate.
- Paul David Tripp
You no longer have to hope and pray that someday you will measure up, because Jesus has measured up on your behalf.
- Paul David Tripp
You can face your weakness with joy because you know that you have been given grace for that weakness; grace that is not a thing, but a person—the Holy Spirit, who makes you the place where he dwells in power.
- Paul David Tripp