One Way Love Quotes

“The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster. Musician Rich Mullins once wrote, “I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I’ve listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I’ve listened to thousands of sermons. But I could count on one hand the number [of sermons] that were a simple proclamation of the Gospel of Christ.”4”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“The law offends us because it tells us what to do—and most of the time, we hate anyone telling us what to do. But ironically, grace offends us even more, because it tells us that there is nothing we can do, that everything has already been done. And if there is something we hate more than being told what to do, it’s being told that we can’t do anything, that we can’t earn anything—that we are helpless, weak, and needy.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Children will run from law, and they’ll run from grace. The ones who run from law never come back. But the ones who run from grace always come back. Grace draws its own back home.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.…”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful of books have been published urging a more robust, radical, and sacrificial expression of the Christian faith. I even wrote one of them—Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different. I heartily amen the desire to take one’s faith seriously and demonstrate before the watching world a willingness to be more than just Sunday churchgoers. That Christians would want to engage the wider community with God’s sacrificial love—living for their neighbors instead of for themselves—is a wonderful thing and should be applauded. The unintended consequence of this push, however, is that if we’re not careful, we can give people the impression that Christianity is first and foremost about the sacrifice we make for Jesus rather than the sacrifice Jesus made for us; our performance for him rather than his performance for us; our obedience for him rather than his obedience for us. The hub of Christianity is not “do something for Jesus.” The hub of Christianity is “Jesus has done everything for you.” And my fear is that too many people, both inside and outside the church, have heard our pleas for intensified devotion and concluded that the focus of Christian faith is our love for God instead of God’s love for us. Don’t get me wrong—what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us. Furthermore, it often seems that the Good News of”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Gospel only sounds good to a heart that knows it is bad. For people who think they’re good, grace is frustrating. For people who know they’re not, grace is freeing.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Christian growth does not involve becoming stronger and stronger, more and more competent every day. It involves becoming more and more aware of how weak and incompetent we are and how strong and competent Jesus was and continues to be for us.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“One surefire way to know you’re starting to grasp this message of grace is when you’re finally able to admit that you’re not the good guy—that you never were and apart from grace never will be.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“The gospel doesn’t just free you from what other people think about you, it frees you from what you think about yourself.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify our actions away, but deep down, we know when we've done something wrong.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“If any kind of obedience, regardless of what motivates it, is what God is after, He would have showcased the Pharisees and exhorted all of us to follow their lead, to imitate them. But He didn't. Jesus called them 'whitewashed tombs'--clean on the outside, dead on the inside.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“If you’re simply looking for moral reformation (improved behavior), you might need a life coach, a cheerleading section, or a really good friend, but not a Savior. But if you require mortal resurrection, you’re going to need something beyond yourself, someone who will raise dead people to life, give sight to the blind, and set captives free.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Jesus came to liberate us from the weight of having to make it on our own, from the demand to measure up. He came to emancipate us from the burden to get it all right, from the obligation to fix ourselves, find ourselves, and free ourselves. Jesus came to release us from the slavish need to be right, rewarded, regarded, and respected. Because Jesus came to set the captives free, life does not have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, and validate ourselves.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“For people who think they’re good, grace is frustrating. For people who know they’re not, grace is freeing.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Many people inside the church think God cares only that we obey. In fact, many believe that it is even more honorable--and therefore more righteous--when we obey God against all desire to obey Him. Where did we get the idea that if we do what God tells us to do, even though 'our hearts are far from Him,' it's something to be proud of, something admirable, something praiseworthy, something righteous? Don't get me wrong, we should obey when we don't feel like it. But lets not make the common mistake of proudly equating that with the righteousness that God requires.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.
~Quote by Brennan Manning”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“God's demand: 'be righteous'; God's diagnosis: 'no one is righteous'; God's deliverance: 'Jesus is our righteousness.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“One-way love is rare, though, and it always comes as a surprise. Fortunately, the glimpses we receive in relationships are only a foreshadowing of God's love for us. They are like little arrows that point to the very heart of the universe, what Dante called 'the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars,' the love that received its fullest expression in the person and work of Jesus Christ.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people. Far from being a book full of moral heroes whom we are commanded to emulate, what we discover is that the so-called heroes in the Bible are not really heroes at all. They fall and fail; they make huge mistakes; they get afraid; they're selfish, deceptive, egotistical, and unreliable. The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“The hub of Christianity is not 'do something for Jesus.' The hub of Christianity is 'Jesus has done everything for you.' And my fear is that too many people, both inside and outside the church, have heard our pleas for intensified devotion and concluded that the focus of Christian faith is our love for God instead of God's love for us. Don't get me wrong--what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World