Paul David Tripp

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

— Paul David Tripp

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

— Paul David Tripp

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

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

— Paul David Tripp

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

— Paul David Tripp

“ If I am going to see myself clearly, I need you to hold the mirror of God’s Word in front of me.”

— Paul David Tripp

“In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There”

— Paul David Tripp

“True humanity is always connected to glory, and true glory can only be found in the One who is glory, the Lord.”

— Paul David Tripp

“The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who…

— Paul David Tripp

Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength.…

— Paul David Tripp

“Life was born in that manger; it’s what the Christmas story is about. Life was born among the dead so that the…

— Paul David Tripp

“Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the…

— Paul David Tripp

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself…

— Paul David Tripp

“The birth of Jesus is a sure sign that God will act where we cannot act, and he will act with life-giving…

— Paul David Tripp

“It is only when I live in a celebratory and restful worship of God that I am able not to take myself…

— Paul David Tripp

Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this…

— Paul David Tripp

“so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we…

— Paul David Tripp

Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a…

— Paul David Tripp

There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly…

— Paul David Tripp

“The central focus of the Bible is not a set of practical-life principles. No, the central theme of the Bible is a…

— Paul David Tripp

In the family, life is brought not only to our doorstep, but into our kitchens, bedrooms, and dens. In the family, life…

— Paul David Tripp

The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness…

— Paul David Tripp

“Biblical literacy is not to be confused with Christian maturity. Homiletic accuracy is not the same as godliness. Theological dexterity is very…

— Paul David Tripp

“When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an…

— Paul David Tripp

“But the message of the gospel is that I haven’t been left to myself, that Immanuel is with me in sovereign authority…

— Paul David Tripp

“If Genesis 1 is a welcome to transcendence, then Genesis 3 is about the tragedy of the shrinking of transcendence. Adam and…

— Paul David Tripp

“I have talked with many pastors whose real struggle isn’t first with the hardship of ministry, the lack of appreciation and involvement…

— Paul David Tripp

“I often give way to the fantasy that I have the wisdom, power, and character to control people, places, and things in…

— Paul David Tripp

“The great danger . . . lies precisely in his constant contact with divine things.” What is the danger? It is that familiarity with…

— Paul David Tripp

“Whenever you name something in creation as the thing that will satisfy you, you are asking that thing to be your personal…

— Paul David Tripp

“DECEMBER 1 You have one place of hope, security, and rest. It is found in these words: “God is love.” It is…

— Paul David Tripp

“The Bible really is a story of kingdoms in conflict, and that battle rages on the field of your heart. It rages…

— Paul David Tripp

“The bottom line: each of our lives is shaped by the war between the kingdom of god and the kingdom of self.”

— Paul David Tripp

“when Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!”

— Paul David Tripp

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

— Paul David Tripp

“One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.”

— Paul David Tripp

“For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”

— Paul David Tripp

“You will always deny your need for God's grace when you are more irritated than convicted. It's possible to be irritated with…

— Paul David Tripp

“The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there…

— Paul David Tripp

“God hasn’t just sent you to do his work in the lives of your children; he will use the lives of your…

— Paul David Tripp