Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

God works through people. It’s not me.

I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it's not me, all of this is really God's gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

I would not like to take credit for all the hard work that I have put in. It's all because of the Almighty. Whatever I have or will get in the future is because of Him.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so. Unfortunately, you may not always be aware that you are in God's way. . . . God has no need to prove to you what God can do.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.