The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)

— Tullian Tchividjian

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The smaller you get—the smaller life makes you—the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fairness.

— Tullian Tchividjian

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.

— Tullian Tchividjian

We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.

— Tullian Tchividjian

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.

— Tullian Tchividjian

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

— Tullian Tchividjian

We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.

— Tullian Tchividjian