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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.

Tullian Tchividjian

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Jesus
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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
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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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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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Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
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In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
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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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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the stiff upper lip school of thought.
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The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.
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Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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