A Quest For More Quotes

“Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You

“Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You

“It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You

“If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You

“Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You

“We weren’t created to find our satisfaction in the little, earthbound kingdom treasures of the here and now. We were created to seek a better treasure, and in so doing to be eternally grateful and satisfied.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There is a compelling tendency to forget who you are and what you were made for. There is a tendency to be shortsighted, myopic, and easily distracted. There is a tendency to settle for less when you have been created for more. There is something expansive, glorious, and eternal that is meant to give direction to everything you do.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“you become like the treasure that you seek.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Sin holds the physical glories of the here-and-now world in front of you and tells you that they are the only glories worth living for. Sin shrinks your zeal and narrows your vision. Sin makes it hard to see beyond the borders of your own life. Grace enables you to tear down fences of self-focus, self-defensiveness, and self-protection so you can reach out to God and others. In so doing you will not only experience true glory, but you will recapture your true humanity.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“In the Psalms, the life of faith isn’t idyllic, pretty, or easy. It is a walk with God marked by anguish, dread, and grief. The Psalms picture a life where prayers seem to go unanswered, where God seems distant, and where evil seems to be winning. The Psalms welcome us to a faith where God’s agenda is more important than ours and where we are asked to live out our faith in the context of a disastrously broken world. But this is also precisely where we experience the highest personal joys, as we put our hope in the covenant love of the Lord and make the pursuit of his glory the goal of our lives.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“We simply weren’t constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“True humanity is always connected to glory, and true glory can only be found in the One who is glory, the Lord.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“In the center of the kingdom of God, you do not find a gargantuan palace inhabited by an unapproachable king. No, in the center of the kingdom of God is a bloody cross, on which hung a broken King, who welcomes us as we are.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“The bottom line: each of our lives is shaped by the war between the kingdom of god and the kingdom of self.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“when Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Our identity was meant to be rooted in his love. Our hope was designed to be tied to his grace. Our potential was meant to be connected to his power. Our purpose was meant to be structured by his will. Our joy was meant to be wed to his glory. In every way, our vision of what is necessary, true, worthy, and meaningful was meant to be rooted in a functional worship of him. We were created for the dignity of living large and meaningful lives—lives that literally are connected to things before the creation of the world and extending far into eternity.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“God-contoured living means that God’s purposes become our functional life goals, that things God says are valuable become the real-life treasures we seek, and that God’s will provides the fences within which we live. The “more” we live for is his plan for us and for all things.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“We were not designed to settle for personal survival, temporal happiness, or individual success. We were created to find our meaning, identity, and purpose in the existence, character, and plan of God.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Essentially, hope is a desire coupled with a logical or confident expectation of fulfillment. But hope is much more than this. When I place my hope in something, I am attaching my sense of well-being, identity, meaning, and purpose to that thing in some way. In this way I “need” my hopes to become realities because I have connected my life to them. You must realize that every human being does this. If you are still alive and able to think and feel, you are putting your hope somewhere.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“His death call is really an offer to a life beyond your wildest dreams—a life of joy, satisfaction, purpose, and pleasure that this sadly broken world could never deliver in its finest moment. Shrinking your life to the size of your life is not life. It is death wearing the mask of life.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“The little kingdom promises life, but brings you death; the big kingdom requires your death, but gives you life.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“It is his honor and glory that I live for. I no longer live, decide, act, and relate for the purposes of my own glory.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You