Rise Quotes

“There are no super-Christians, only regular Christians denying themselves and embracing their Lord.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“It’s tragic to treasure a moment in time more than an entire lifetime.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“The myth of procrastination is that it will somehow be easier later. The truth is, it’s never easy, and putting it off only makes it harder.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“But it didn’t stay that way. Sin entered the world, and since then everything has been a mess. Our world is sick, and none of us are immune to the infection. At our cores we’re sinners. We purposely rebel against our Creator. We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God’s goodness, but with sin that mirror was fractured and the reflection is distorted. Instead of following God, we assume we’re wiser and follow our own misguided intuition. We’re choosing what we think will make us happy, but in the process we’ve made God angry. He despises sin and He will judge us for it. We’re beautifully made, but tragically broken.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“Apparently it was okay for me to like Jesus as long as I didn’t get too serious and actually start to do what He said.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“When we choose wicked images over God, we’re pulling ourselves farther and farther away from Him. Imagine you are in prison and can only talk to your loved ones on an old phone through a glass wall. It’s not that God won’t hear you when you speak to Him, but there will be a wedge between you. There’s intimacy that you cannot have with God while chasing after counterfeit intimacy with men or women on computer screens. For every moment you seek your satisfaction elsewhere, you will not be seeking it in God.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“For every moment you seek your satisfaction elsewhere, you will not be seeking it in God. Porn”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“There are really only two ways to respond to Jesus: you can deny yourself and follow Him, or you can deny Him and follow yourself. Who do you think is the better leader?”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“Jesus was way more than just some prophet or teacher. And to point to Him as anything less than the King of kings, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, is to reject Him and insult Him.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“He loves using lackluster ingredients, because doing so makes it clear where the true credit should go.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“Cool is fickle, and we can’t live for it”—the words of Trip Lee.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“As Mack Stiles says, Most Christians in the world must fear the raised fist; Americans fear the raised eyebrow.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“At our cores we’re sinners. We purposely rebel against our Creator. We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God’s goodness, but with sin that mirror was fractured and the reflection is distorted. Instead of following God, we assume we’re wiser and follow our own misguided intuition. We’re choosing what we think will make us happy, but in the process we’ve made God angry. He despises sin and He will judge us for it. We’re beautifully made, but tragically broken.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story