Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.

If someone tells me I can't wear something, that's the moment when I want to wear it.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.