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 TchividjianThe emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
Tullian TchividjianIf the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
Tullian TchividjianWhen I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.
Tullian Tchividjian