Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

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.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.