Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

About Tullian Tchividjian:

William Graham Tullian Tchividjian is the former senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a former contributing editor to Christianity Today??'?s Leadership Journal. He has written several books about Christianity and current issues.
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The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

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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.

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Daily Christian living, in other words, is daily Christian dying: dying to our trivial comforts, soul-shrinking conveniences, arrogant preferences, and self-centered entitlements, and living for something much larger than what makes us comfortable an...

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

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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.

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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

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The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

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We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.

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

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Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; . That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by confor...

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Flight from God always leads downward. It culminates not in the vivacious life we imagined but in what amounts only to stagnant sleep. It's why so many people seem to exist without ever really living. In fact, they really living; they're only going t...

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I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

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Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's 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; it's a witness...

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The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us...

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There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

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Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

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What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

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My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wroug...

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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.

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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

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Author Bio

  • NameTullian Tchividjian
  • DescriptionPresbyterian minister
  • BornJuly 13, 1972