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The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.
— Paul David Tripp
Our obsession with material things brings trouble and heartache into our lives. So we tell ourselves that we'll do better—we commit ourselves for a time to new budgets, we go on temporary diets, we hold garage sales. But none of it lasts for long because deep inside us, we treasure the creation more than we treasure the Creator.
— Paul David Tripp
The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn't your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.
— Paul David Tripp
When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.
— Paul David Tripp
What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?
— Paul David Tripp
The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.
— Paul David Tripp
We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.
— Paul David Tripp
It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.
— Paul David Tripp
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).
— Paul David Tripp
you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.
— Paul David Tripp
The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.
— Paul David Tripp
Something as normal as a concern over what others think of me, or what will happen to me if others oppose me, rises to a level of such immediate importance that my actions are more shaped by that concern than they are about the huge and transcendent glories of the life-altering grace of the gospel.
— Paul David Tripp