Age of Opportunity Quotes

“The tendency of every sinner”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity, Revised and Expanded: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“There is a war out there; it is being fought on the turf of your heart. It is being fought for the control of your soul.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity, Revised and Expanded: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“Here’s the point. Scripture says that life is war! As I have said many times to my children, “A war is being fought on the turf of your heart. It is being fought for the control of your soul. Each situation you face today is a skirmish. Be aware of the battle. Don’t forget you have a scheming enemy who is out to deceive, divide, and destroy you. To win, you must fight. You must not relax.” We cannot say this enough to our teenagers (or ourselves). Wise, mature, godly people live with awareness of the spiritual; they see it in every situation of life.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity, Revised and Expanded: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“Don’t get sucked in. Don’t get locked out. Don’t engage in interpersonal war. Faithfully bring sweet words of wisdom and loving words of correction. Hold what is valuable before your teenager and trust God to produce a love for truth in his or her heart.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity, Revised and Expanded: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“No, trials expose what we have always been. Trials bare things to which we would have otherwise been blind. So, too, the teen years expose our self-righteousness, our impatience, our unforgiving spirit, our lack of servant love, the weakness of our faith, and our craving for comfort and ease.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“Here is where many Christian parents make a decision that seems right on the surface, but I believe is all wrong if they hope to prepare their teenagers to be a redemptive influence in the cultural struggle. Like the Smiths, many Christian parents try their best to keep the surrounding culture out of their homes (cassette tapes, CDs, and videos). In so doing, they lose a wonderful, focused opportunity to teach their children how to use a biblical view of life to understand and critique their culture.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“Successful parenting is the rightful, God-ordained loss of control. The goal of parenting is to work ourselves out of a job. The goal of parenting is to raise children who were once totally dependent on us to be independent, mature people who, with reliance on God and proper connectedness to the Christian community, are able to stand on their own two feet.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“It is so easy to lose sight of the fact that these are God’s children. They do not belong to us. They are given not to bring us glory, but him. Our teenagers are from him, they exist through him, and the glory of their lives points to him. We are but agents to accomplish his plan. We are but instruments in his hands. Our identity is rooted in him and his call to us, not in our children and their performance. The ultimate rejection that should make us weep is not that they have rejected us, but him.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“In Ephesians 3:20, Paul directs us to that power in a well-known doxology. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. The God who is our Father is a God of awesome power. Through this power he is able to do things that are well beyond anything we could verbalize or grasp with our imaginations. Think of the thing in your life that seems the most impossible to accomplish. God is able to do more! Think of the thing that the Bible would say is most needed in your teenager’s life, yet seems unrealistic and out of reach. God is able to do more! It”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager’s life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens