Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

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

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

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

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am motivated to be a better person.

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

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.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

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

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.