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1. "The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.Every painful thing we experience in relationships is meant to remind us of our need for God. And every good thing we experience is meant to be a metaphor of what we can only find in Him.... We settle for the satisfaction of human relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God." ~ Paul David Tripp

2. "If I am seeking to get identity from you ,I will watch you too closely, listen to you too intently, and need you to fundamentally. I will ride the roller coaster of your best and worst moments and everything in between. And because I am watching you too closely, I will become acutely aware of your weaknesses and failures. I will become overly critical, frustrated, disappointed, hopeless, and angry. I will be angry not because you are a sinner but because you have failed to deliver the one thing I seek from you: identity. But none of us will ever get the well-being that comes from knowing who we are from our relationships. Instead we will be left with damaged relationships filled with hurt, frustration and anger." ~ Paul David Tripp

3. "Our purpose (in relationship) is to get what we want but God's purpose is to give us what we really need. We think things are going well only if we are getting along with others. But God says that it is also when we are not getting along with others that he is accomplishing his purpose.God has designed our relationship to function as both a diagnosis and a cure." ~ Paul David Tripp

4. "Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you." ~ Paul David Tripp

5. "If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing." ~ Paul David Tripp

6. "The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed." ~ Paul David Tripp

7. "God's grace invites you to be part of something that is far greater than your boldest and most expansive dream. His grace cuts a hole in your self-built prison and invites you to step into something so huge, so significant that only one word in the Bible can adequately capture it. That word is glory." ~ Paul David Tripp

8. "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

9. "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

10. "If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need." ~ Paul David Tripp

11. "Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy." ~ Paul David Tripp

12. "Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power." ~ Paul David Tripp

13. "Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve." ~ Paul David Tripp

14. "Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love." ~ Paul David Tripp

15. "We rarely do anything with on single motive." ~ Paul David Tripp

16. "Sin makes us moral quadriplegics." ~ Paul David Tripp

17. "It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey." ~ Paul David Tripp

18. "True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace." ~ Paul David Tripp

19. "Being truly biblical means that my counsel reflects what the entire Bible is about. The Bible is a narrative, a story of redemption, and its chief character is Jesus Christ. He is the main theme of the narrative, and he is revealed in every passage in the book. This story reveals how God harnessed nature and controlled history to send his Son to rescue rebellious, foolish, and self-focused men and women. He freed them from bondage to themselves, enabled them to live for his glory, and gifted them with an eternity in his presence, far from the harsh realities of the Fall." ~ Paul David Tripp

20. "Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom of the Word to the details of people's lives. And because I love people, I will not be satisfied with lobbing grenades of general truth at them. Rather, through good questions, committed listening, and careful interpretation, I will enter their world with the understanding necessary to bring Christ's help to where it is really needed." ~ Paul David Tripp

21. "The fact that you live in a broken-down house in the midst of restoration makes everything more difficult. It removes the ease and simplicity of life. It requires you to be more thoughtful, more careful. It requires you to listen and see well. It requires you to look out for difficulty and to be aware of danger. It requires you to contemplate and plan. It requires you to do what you don;t really want to do and to accept what you find difficult to accept. You want to simply coast, but you can't. Things are broken and they need to be fixed. There is work to do." ~ Paul David Tripp

22. "We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer." ~ Paul David Tripp

23. "People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination." ~ Paul David Tripp

24. "The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself." ~ Paul David Tripp

25. "An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands" ~ Paul David Tripp

26. "We forget that God's primary goal ia 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." ~ Paul David Tripp

27. "you become like the treasure that you seek." ~ Paul David Tripp

28. "The brokenness around you affects you in different ways at different times. .................... . At every point and every moment, your life is messier and more complicated than it really ought to be because everything is so much more difficult in such a terribly broken world.But let us also see that this world of ours is more than a broken-down house. It is a broken-down house in the process of being restored." ~ Paul David Tripp

29. "Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us." ~ Paul David Tripp

30. "The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace." ~ Paul David Tripp

31. "For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living" ~ Paul David Tripp

32. "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

33. "You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom." ~ Paul David Tripp

34. "I have talked with many pastors whose real struggle isn't first with the hardship of ministry, the lack of appreciation and involvement of people, or difficulties with fellow leaders. No, the real struggle they are having, one that is very hard for a pastor to admit, is with God. What has caused ministry to become hard and burdensome is disappointment and anger with God." ~ Paul David Tripp

35. "In the center of the kingdom of God, you do not find a gargantuan palace inhabited by an unapproachable king. No, in the center of the kingdom of God is a bloody cross, on which hung a broken King, who welcomes us as we are." ~ Paul David Tripp

36. "when Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!" ~ Paul David Tripp

37. "Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER" ~ Paul David Tripp

38. "But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?" ~ Paul David Tripp

39. "We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one." ~ Paul David Tripp

40. "Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life." ~ Paul David Tripp

41. "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

42. "Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge." ~ Paul David Tripp

43. "When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change." ~ Paul David Tripp

44. "Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get "fixed." It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his." ~ Paul David Tripp

45. "Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given." ~ Paul David Tripp

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