black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Tullian Tchividjian

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

Free Happy People Think
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Creating Expectations Reality
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
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Grace Little Think
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
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Enough Heart Information
I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Church Moments Thinking
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
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
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Favor Favors God Walk
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Advice Christian Heart
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Complainer Entitlement Legalism
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
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Church People Thinking
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Free God Jesus Someone
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Enjoy Friendly Theological

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tullian Tchividjian Quotes