Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

There is nothing at all that God won't forgive.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

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.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.