Quotes about Spirituality
Creation points us to the Creator, but it can never give us what the Creator can give.
— Paul David Tripp
The cross welcomes us to look inside and around us and be dissatisfied. It welcomes us not to the dissatisfaction that leaves us hopeless, but a dissatisfaction that leads us to the foot of the cross where mercy and grace are found.
— Paul David Tripp
You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.
— Paul David Tripp
Yet we all tend to think that we are more righteous than we are, and when we think this, we have taken the first step to embracing the delusion that maybe we're not so bad in God's eyes after all.
— Paul David Tripp
You will always deny your need for God's grace when you are more irritated than convicted. It's possible to be irritated with things in other people that you regularly excuse in yourself.
— Paul David Tripp
The person who is comfortable in his own righteousness hasn't really understood grace, and the person who is unimpressed by God's grace hasn't really understood his sin. So
— Paul David Tripp
Theological instruction that does not arouse awe is broken.
— Paul David Tripp
The most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character, and plan of God.
— Paul David Tripp
Corporate worship is designed to humble you by pointing out the depth of your need and enthrall you by pointing to the glory of God's provision.
— Paul David Tripp
At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?
— Paul David Tripp
This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.
— Paul David Tripp
None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied. And because we are satisfied, we are resistant to the grace that is our only hope.
— Paul David Tripp