Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous