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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A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

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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.

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The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

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At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

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The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

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Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

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Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

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Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

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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 lo...

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The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

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Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.

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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.

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The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

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We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.

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As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

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Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

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

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Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameTullian Tchividjian
  • DescriptionPresbyterian minister
  • BornJuly 13, 1972