Quote

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.

Tullian Tchividjian

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Figures
Couldn
Middle
Youngest
Child
Oldest
Whether
Younger
Three
Fit
Home
Figure
Children
Older

More quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

Image
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
Tullian Tchividjian
Image
Jesus has done everything for you.
Tullian Tchividjian