God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

— Tullian Tchividjian

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

— Tullian Tchividjian

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

It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.

— Tullian Tchividjian

I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory, but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.

— Tullian Tchividjian

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.

— Tullian Tchividjian

One primary enemy of the Gospel—legalism—comes in two forms. Some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by keeping the rules, doing what they’re told, maintaining the standards, and so on (you could call this “front-door legalism”). Other people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by breaking the rules, doing whatever they want, developing their own autonomous standards, and so on (you could call this “back-door legalism”).

— Tullian Tchividjian

One-way love is rare, though, and it always comes as a surprise. Fortunately, the glimpses we receive in relationships are only a foreshadowing of God's love for us. They are like little arrows that point to the very heart of the universe, what Dante called 'the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars,' the love that received its fullest expression in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

— Tullian Tchividjian