110+ Tullian Tchividjian Quotes On Friendship, Bible And Inspirational

Pastor Tullian Tchividjian is a Christian author, speaker, and pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is the grandson of evangelist Billy Graham and the son of pastor Gigi Tchividjian. He is known for his focus on grace and the power of the gospel to bring transformation. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tullian Tchividjian on leadership, love, life.

Top 10 Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

1. Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.
2. The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
3. Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
4. Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
5. Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
6. We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
7. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
8. If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
9. Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
10. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

Tullian Tchividjian Short Quotes

• Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
• Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
• The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
• The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
• Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
• God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!
• The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
• Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
• Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
• Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

Tullian Tchividjian Quotes About Love

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other. — Tullian Tchividjian

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. — Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable. — Tullian Tchividjian

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me. — Tullian Tchividjian

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

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff. — Tullian Tchividjian

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen! — Tullian Tchividjian

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are. — Tullian Tchividjian

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves. — Tullian Tchividjian

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. — Tullian Tchividjian

Tullian Tchividjian Quotes About Life

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. — Tullian Tchividjian

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward. — Tullian Tchividjian

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. — Tullian Tchividjian

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification. — Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it. — Tullian Tchividjian

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace. — Tullian Tchividjian

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom. — Tullian Tchividjian

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him. — Tullian Tchividjian

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.' — Tullian Tchividjian

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living. — Tullian Tchividjian

Tullian Tchividjian Quotes About Bible

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. — Tullian Tchividjian

If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free. — Tullian Tchividjian

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. — Tullian Tchividjian

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats 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; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people. — Tullian Tchividjian

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus. — Tullian Tchividjian

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness. — Tullian Tchividjian

Tullian Tchividjian Famous Quotes And Sayings

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof. — Tullian Tchividjian

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission. — Tullian Tchividjian

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality. — Tullian Tchividjian

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. — Tullian Tchividjian

Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place — Tullian Tchividjian

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf. — Tullian Tchividjian

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad. — Tullian Tchividjian

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

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things. — Tullian Tchividjian

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering. — Tullian Tchividjian

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken. — Tullian Tchividjian

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. — Tullian Tchividjian

Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners. — Tullian Tchividjian

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. — Tullian Tchividjian

The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of "How" and "Why" to the freedom of "Who?" — Tullian Tchividjian

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time. — Tullian Tchividjian

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse. — Tullian Tchividjian

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me. — Tullian Tchividjian

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. — Tullian Tchividjian

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient. — Tullian Tchividjian

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do. — Tullian Tchividjian

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance. — Tullian Tchividjian

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him. — Tullian Tchividjian

I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself. — Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers, doctors, lawyers, artists and entertainers. Some people are cool and some people are geeky. I look around at my friends and I think, only the gospel has the power to put together a friendship like this. — Tullian Tchividjian

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance. — Tullian Tchividjian

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last. — Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out. — Tullian Tchividjian

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator. — Tullian Tchividjian

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency." — Tullian Tchividjian

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative. — Tullian Tchividjian

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament. — Tullian Tchividjian

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God. — Tullian Tchividjian

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did. — Tullian Tchividjian

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person. — Tullian Tchividjian

My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became. — Tullian Tchividjian

If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something. — Tullian Tchividjian

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word. — Tullian Tchividjian

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. — Tullian Tchividjian

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God. — Tullian Tchividjian

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought. — Tullian Tchividjian

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. — Tullian Tchividjian

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God. — Tullian Tchividjian

Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus. — Tullian Tchividjian

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering. — Tullian Tchividjian

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music. — Tullian Tchividjian

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality. — Tullian Tchividjian

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven. — Tullian Tchividjian

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. — Tullian Tchividjian

Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way. — Tullian Tchividjian

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction. — Tullian Tchividjian

I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need. — Tullian Tchividjian

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken. — Tullian Tchividjian

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. — Tullian Tchividjian

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or that others construct for you. Rather, He is interested in you, the you who suffers, the you who inflicts suffering on others, the you who hides, the you who has bad days (and good ones). And He meets you where you are. — Tullian Tchividjian

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves. — Tullian Tchividjian

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free. — Tullian Tchividjian

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world. — Tullian Tchividjian

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered. — Tullian Tchividjian

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance" — Tullian Tchividjian

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness. — Tullian Tchividjian

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism. — Tullian Tchividjian

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

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. — Tullian Tchividjian

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God. — Tullian Tchividjian

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other. — Tullian Tchividjian

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall. — Tullian Tchividjian

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything. — Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us. — Tullian Tchividjian

Life Lessons by Tullian Tchividjian

1. Pastor Tullian Tchividjian emphasizes the importance of grace and forgiveness in our lives, teaching us to extend these to others as well as ourselves.
2. He also encourages us to be humble and recognize our need for God's help in all areas of life.
3. Finally, he reminds us that joy and peace come from trusting in God's promises and allowing Him to lead us.