"We forget that God's primary goal is not……" — Paul David Tripp
"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."
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50 Quotes by Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp has 50 quotes on this site.
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It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we…
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Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
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The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed…
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Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do…
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People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
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Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you,…
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Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing…
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We rarely do anything with on single motive.
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Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every…
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The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
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Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach…
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True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.
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More Changing Quotes
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
— Paul Auster
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
— Joe Baca
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you are through changing, you are through.
— Bruce Barton
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
— Gary Bauer
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself…
— Valerie Bertinelli
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
— Samuel Beckett
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
— Robert Benchley
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