black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

Tullian Tchividjian

Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Fruit Grace Need
God’s grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I’ll do that for you. Or if you don’t do this for me, I won’t do that for you. And God’s grace works in a completely different direction.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Different Grace Life
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Complainer Entitlement Legalism
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.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Grace Kindness Remedy
I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Miserable Source Validation
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Free God Jesus Someone
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Backyards First Tennis
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Get Better Need Self
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Creating Expectations Reality
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Advice Christian Heart
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Bottom Grace Run
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Grace Judgment Longing
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Grace Little Think
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Favor Favors God Walk
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

Compelled Feel Identity
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Enough Heart Information

The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tullian Tchividjian Quotes