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Tullian Tchividjian Inspirational Quotes (129)

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Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
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Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
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I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.
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My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way. So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
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I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.
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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.
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I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
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I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.
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If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
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Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
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To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.
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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
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What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.
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Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
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If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
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When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
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God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
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In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.
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The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
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