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" There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself. "

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" God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel. "

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Gospel

" Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved. "

" I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do. "

Tullian Tchividjian

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Life

" There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God. "

Tullian Tchividjian

Suffering

God

" My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. "

" I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. "

" Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification. "

" A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance. "

" Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. "

" When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient. "

" Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin. "

" Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ. "

" Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. "

" 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. "

" In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites. "

" Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. "

" The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be. "

" Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one. "

Tullian Tchividjian

Two

Christian

" Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. "

" Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time. "

" The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. "

" At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another. "

" Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts. "

" The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. "

" There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. "

" We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval. "

" Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have. "

" Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance. "

" Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. "

" For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented by God. "