Broken-Down House Quotes

“True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.”
― Paul David Tripp, Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad

“He knows that his plan will confuse and confound you. And he knows that real rest cannot be found in understanding. Real rest is found in trust.”
― Paul David Tripp, Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad

“The fact that you live in a broken-down house in the midst of restoration makes everything more difficult. It removes the ease and simplicity of life. It requires you to be more thoughtful, more careful. It requires you to listen and see well. It requires you to look out for difficulty and to be aware of danger. It requires you to contemplate and plan. It requires you to do what you don;t really want to do and to accept what you find difficult to accept. You want to simply coast, but you can't. Things are broken and they need to be fixed. There is work to do.”
― Paul David Tripp, Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad

“God is not willing for this broken-down world to stay in its sorry condition. As Creator, he is able to look at it and see promise, the promise of a total restoration of its beauty. And he has asked you to move in with him to be one of his tools of restoration.
While it is hard to live in a house that needs to be restored in some ways it is even harder to live there while the restoration takes place.”
― Paul David Tripp, Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad

“The brokenness around you affects you in different ways at different times. .................... . At every point and every moment, your life is messier and more complicated than it really ought to be because everything is so much more difficult in such a terribly broken world.
But let us also see that this world of ours is more than a broken-down house. It is a broken-down house in the process of being restored.”
― Paul David Tripp, Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad

“The world you live in is a lot like that broken-down house. Every single room has been dirtied and damaged by sin. Not one part of it shines with anything like the pure glory that was so evident when it was first made. Sin has left this world in a sorry condition. You see it everywhere you look.”
― Paul David Tripp, Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad