Forever Quotes

“Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.”
― Paul David Tripp, Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It

“A life of vibrant ministry is not the result of ministry training, but the result of a deep conviction that God is who he has said he is and is doing all that he promised to do. Ministry always flows from a thankful heart. 3.”
― Paul David Tripp, Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It

“You see, life will never operate the way we want it to. People will not submit to the laws of our kingdoms for long. God will not get up and give us his holy throne. Our reality is irrational and our hope is hopeless. Our dreams are gas (see Psalm 73:18–20). The more we work to fill our hearts, the emptier they become. The more we work to achieve our dreams, the more they vaporize in our hands. The more we live for ourselves, the more envious we become. It is socially acceptable madness. It cannot and will not ever work. This is not the way the world was created, and this is not who we were designed to be. We were designed to live with both King and kingdom consciousness, because we were designed to live for God. The architecture of our lives was to be shaped by all of the plans, purposes, words, and actions that would flow out of these words: “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). It is only inside of the boundaries of these words that true and lasting life and peace of heart will ever be found. Inside these boundaries, real wisdom and real love live. Inside of this moral structure, life lives in gorgeous beauty. Outside are frustration, discouragement, anger, disappointment, and doubt. Sure, the temporary pleasures of here and now are enjoyable, but their shelf life is short. Creation has no capacity whatsoever to truly satisfy your heart. Your heart has been wired to find its hope, peace, and rest in God alone. What is spiritual death? It is living as if God doesn’t exist. It is putting yourself where God is supposed to be.”
― Paul David Tripp, Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It

“We have forever inside us, and it creates a natural disappointment with the brokenness of the here and now.”
― Paul David Tripp, Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It

“death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.”
― Paul David Tripp, Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”5”
― Paul David Tripp, Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It

“Eternity challenges my feelings of futility by reminding me that what I am experiencing right now is not permanent.”
― Paul David Tripp, Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It