Tullian Tchividjian Quotes About Grace
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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.
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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
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Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
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The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
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Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.
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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.
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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
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Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
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The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
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Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.
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The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
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Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
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The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
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Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.
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God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.
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The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace
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