Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

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.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

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

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

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

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

Saints need sinners.

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, it says, that 'God has no pleasure in the person that's living in sin.' He's a loving God and he wants people to turn away from what they're living in and he'll give them life. That's the message I'm trying to share, even though it comes across as harsh.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.