Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

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.

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

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.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

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

I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.

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.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.