According to his website: “Dr. Paul David Tripp is a pastor, international event speaker, and a best-selling and award-winning author. With more than 30 books and video series on Christian living, Paul’s driving passion is to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.”1
I pray the quotes below by Dr. Tripp will encourage your soul and fill you with the joy of the Lord.2
“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.”
“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.”
“Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.”
“Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.”
“God created an awesome world. God intentionally loaded the world with amazing things to leave you astounded. The carefully air-conditioned termite mound in Africa, the tart crunchiness of an apple, the explosion of thunder, the beauty of an orchid, the interdependent systems of the human body, the inexhaustible pounding of the ocean waves, and thousands of other created sights, sounds, touches, and tastes—God designed all to be awesome. And he intended you to be daily amazed.”
“Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.”
“I came to see that I was wired for awe, that awe of something sits at the bottom of everything I say and do. But I wasn’t just wired for awe. I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul. No other awe can give my heart the peace, rest, and security that it seeks. I came to see that I needed to trace awe of God down to the most mundane of human decisions and activities.”
“We weren’t created to find our satisfaction in the little, earthbound kingdom treasures of the here and now. We were created to seek a better treasure, and in so doing to be eternally grateful and satisfied.”
“Yes, your life is messy and hard, but that’s not a failure of the plan; it is the plan. It’s God working to complete what he’s begun in you.”
“The Psalms welcome us to a faith where God’s agenda is more important than ours and where we are asked to live out our faith in the context of a disastrously broken world. But this is also precisely where we experience the highest personal joys, as we put our hope in the covenant love of the Lord and make the pursuit of his glory the goal of our lives.”
“You obey not to get God’s attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.”
“The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation.”
“God’s love is not just meant to be enjoyed privately; it is meant to be expressed and shared with others.”
“True freedom is found in surrendering our own will and desires to God’s perfect plan for our lives.”
“Our greatest need is not to be successful or accomplished; our greatest need is to be rescued and redeemed by God’s grace.”
“Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that’s been exposed.”
“Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.”
“If my heart is ever going to be freed of grumbling and ruled by gratitude, I need your grace: grace to remember, grace to see, grace that produces a heart of humble joy.”
“Sin doesn’t always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That’s why we need grace to see sin for what it really is – dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.”
“The one thing worth celebrating for all eternity is your redemption.”
2 All of these quotes by Dr. Tripp are from the websites below:
Inspirational Quotes by Paul David Tripp (bibleportal.com)
Paul David Tripp Quotes (Author of Parenting) (goodreads.com)
Best Paul David Tripp Quotes For Inspiration And Reflection (quotesanity.com)