Quote

We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.

Paul David Tripp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul David Tripp
Situation
Provide
Words
Express
Speak
Hearts
Must
Begin
Heart
Cause
Admitting
People
Simply
Occasion
Control
Situations
Causes
Occasions

More quotes by Paul David Tripp

Image
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.
Paul David Tripp
Image
The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.
Paul David Tripp
Image
Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.
Paul David Tripp
Image
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
Paul David Tripp
Image
See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.
Paul David Tripp
Image
Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul David Tripp
Image
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
Paul David Tripp
Image
Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
Paul David Tripp
Image
God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.
Paul David Tripp
Image
The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
Paul David Tripp
Image
Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.
Paul David Tripp
Image
Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
Paul David Tripp
Image
How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?
Paul David Tripp
Image
The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.
Paul David Tripp
Image
You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.
Paul David Tripp
Image
There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.
Paul David Tripp
Image
We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.
Paul David Tripp
Image
True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.
Paul David Tripp
Image
Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.
Paul David Tripp
Image
The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.
Paul David Tripp