Paul Tripp Quotes Part 7

If you can't earn God's favor, then you're freed from trying. Now you're free to admit your sin and run to God for the help you need.


Whatever commands your hope will control your heart and what controls your heart will direct your words and behavior.


You and I actually control very little in our lives, that's why the truth of God's sovereign rule over all things is such a comfort.


Today you will be tempted to buy into the delusion that you're smarter than God; that your way is better than his way.


The scary deception of sin is that at the point of sinning, sin doesn't look all that sinful.


As creator and controller of all things, God has a better sense of what you need than you ever will. It's wise to listen to him.


Be warned, it's easier to see your neighbor's need for grace than it is to admit and embrace your own.


I still need to be rescued from me because as long as sin remains I'll be drawn to desire, think, say and do what God names as evil.


Could there be a greater comfort known to man than these six hope-giving words, "Your mercies are new every morning"?


Lasting hope is always found vertically; all the horizontal places you'd look for hope are, like you, broken and groaning for redemption.

Paul Tripp Quotes Part 6

It's called grace, meaning you'll never earn it, there's nothing to do to achieve it, you won't ever deserve it. You can quit trying.

The fact that the Son of God was found lying in a manger tells you volumes about the divine love that is your only hope of rescue.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

In Jesus' coming, sin would be defeated, life would be given, that's why the angels sang that glory song to the shepherds.

God greeted real life-destroying sin with real life-giving grace, in the person of the Son of Man, Son of God, Jesus.

Creation (God makes beautiful things), Fall (Sin messes them up) Redemption (God in grace restores) is the plot of the Bible and your life.

Whenever you defend what God says is wrong, you tell yourself that you're smarter than God and that you don't need the grace he offers you.

Our rebellion is so deep and our inability so comprehensive it's only the transforming grace of a powerful Redeemer that can rescue us.

Your job is to obey, God's promise is to enable, so get up with joy and get at it.

Paul Tripp Quotes Part 5

Why would you look to others for your identity when Jesus has purchased your acceptance as a child of the Father?


Will you set your heart today on things that cannot satisfy or rest your heart on the eternally satisfying love of Jesus?


The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?


Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that you deserve what another has been given, when in fact you and I deserve nothing.


If the story of your life is the chronicle of underserved favor, why would you boast or act like you're better than someone else?


If you look into the mirror of God's Word and see someone in need of grace, why would you be impatient with others who share that need?


Where is hope to be found? In six life-altering words, "I will be with you always."


Hope is not a thing, not a location, not a situation, not an experience. Hope is a person and his name is Jesus.


Today you can give way to fear producing "What ifs...?" or rest in the sovereign care of your wise and gracious Savior King.


If you underestimate the power of remaining sin, you'll under value your need for forgiving, rescuing, transforming grace.


By yourself you don't have what it takes to live in this broken world, that's why God hasn't left you to yourself.


Corporate worship is designed to expose your false hope and introduce you to the true hope that is Jesus.


Being a sinner means you have the perverse ability to look at what God says is horrible and see something attractive-for this there's grace.

Paul Tripp Quotes Part 4

If you love God's Word more than you love your own view of things, you know that grace has visited you.

If you willing say "no" to your selfish desires and joyfully do the will of the King, you know that grace has visited you.

If you've quit asking the creation to satisfy your heart and look to the Creator for meaning and purpose, you know grace has visited you.

If you've quit pumping your ego and daily look into the mirror of the Word to see yourself as you are, you know grace has visited you.

If your prayers are an act of submission and worship and not a catalog of self-focused requests, you know grace has visited you.

If you speak not to advance your own agenda, but to give grace to the hearer, you know grace has visited you.

If you rest in the acceptance of God and have quit living for the acceptance of those around you, you know grace has visited you.

The story of Scripture isn't a human effort story or a rules and regulations story. No, it's a GRACE story from beginning to endless end.

For your hope to be reliable it must promise the ultimate renewal of all that sin has broken and this you'll only find in Jesus.

If your God's child, it's grace in which you stand. Don't fool yourself, there is no solid rock but Christ Jesus.

Paul Tripp Quotes Part 3

These are all from Tripp's Twitter. 


If you have come to rest in the righteousness of Christ and have quit trying to parade your own, you know grace has visited you.


If you've quit asking people, things and places to give identity and now rest in your identity in Christ, you know grace has visited you.


If you're God's child, you can live with hope and courage because your Savior rules over all things for his glory and your good.


You have one place of hope, security and rest. It is found in these words, "GOD IS LOVE."


God's grace never moves you be casual about sin. If sin was something less than deadly and serious, there would be no need for God's grace.


The grace you've been given is not just the grace of forgiveness and acceptance, it's also the grace of empowerment. So, get up and follow.


If you look for life in the people and places of the here and now you'll always be disappointed. This broken worked can't be your messiah.

Paul Tripp Quotes Part 2

These are all from Tripp's Twitter. He usually has three every day. Good reminders to chew on:

You've not been left to secure your own future because God in grace has secured an end to your story more glorious than you can grasp.

Corporate worship is designed to remind you that no matter how brilliant or regrettable your track record is, it's grace in which you stand!

We never get the freedom and long-term satisfaction we thought self-rule would bring. Ignoring God is never a pathway to blessing.

The Bible is not about learning how to be likable in God's eyes, but how God in grace rescues and forgives otherwise unlikeable people.

You stand in the right because grace atones. You desire what is right because grace transforms.You do what is right because grace empowers.

We lose sight of what's truly important in life. The resurrection of Jesus and our future resurrection tells us what's important.

God questions us, "Why spend money on what's not bread and labor on what doesn't satisfy." Sadly, many of us do that day after day.

What makes eternity wonderful is that God is restored to his rightful place at the center of all things.

Sin causes us to forget God and live as little self-sovereigns, wanting to reign for our own glory. For this there is the grace of Jesus.

When we ask now to give us what only eternity can give, we end up driven, frustrated, discouraged, and ultimately hopeless.

Paul Tripp Quotes

I've been extremely encouraged by many of Paul Tripp's tweets, so I thought I would make a blog post about them.  Enjoy chewing on these!


Faith in God is more than believing the right things. It's living the right way because you believe the right things.


Love is more than being nice to people. It's loving God above all else so that you love people as he commands you to.


When you're defensive when a wrong is pointed out you are preaching to yourself an self-righteous anti-gospel that devalues the cross.


Tear up your wish list and throw it away, what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed for yourself.


The sin of unbelief will always cause you to load onto your shoulders things that only God is able to do.


If the righteousness of Christ allows me stand before a holy God utterly unafraid, why would I be haunted by what you think of me?


Temptation is always a lie. It always offers what it cannot deliver. It promises life, but delivers death.


The opening of your eyes to see yourself with accuracy is one of the long-term projects of transforming grace.


You'll never find deep fulfillment of heart on the far side of rebellion. True rest of heart is always found in submission to the Savior.


Grace doesn't free you from the need to obey, grace frees so you are willing and able to obey.


The transformative power of grace will be one of the divine wonders that we will celebrate forever when eternity is our final home.


There's not a more God-honoring way to celebrate grace than to give yourself to live a joyfully obedient life.

Great Paul Tripp Quotes

These are all from Tripp's Twitter:


Grace means that in your darkest moment of sin you can run to God and not away from him.
Sin offers you hope, but leaves you on your own. Grace shatters that hope, then gives you all the help you'd ever need.
Sin leads you to death, while it promises you life. Grace demands your death, but delivers eternal life.
Sin is a tyranny, obedience is a liberty and grace transports you from one to the other.
Grace releases you from your slavery to the shadow glories of the creation so that your heart can be consumed by love for the Creator.
You don't have to wonder if somewhere down the road you'll have what you need. The cross has already delivered everything you'll ever need.
Today you'll be tempted to insert yourself in the center of your world or by grace will you live for a Glory greater than your own?
You have to be willing to accept the worse news ever (your sin) in order to receive the best news ever (God's grace).
The deceit of sin keeps you from having the accurate view of yourself that you think you have, that's why you need the mirror of God's Word.