Journey to the Cross Quotes

“There is no defeat in the cross. Only triumph is to be found there.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Desire for even a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“We think we are approachable, but we get quickly argumentative when we are accused of something that is outside the field of our own self-knowledge.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“You see, if sin blinds—and it does (see Heb. 3:12–13)—then I will not have an accurate view of myself as long as there is sin remaining in me.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Often we reduce God to just the deliverer of good gifts, rather than recognizing him as the ultimate heart-satisfying gift.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Here’s the bottom line. Your emotions can be a helpful indicator of where you have replaced God with something else or where you have asked him to deliver to you something he’s never promised.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Lack of peace may indicate that where you have looked for peace will never deliver the peace you crave.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“When the Bible commands you to rejoice, it is calling you to surrender the control of your heart to the one who always gives you reason to rejoice, no matter what is going on in your life. Circumstantial, relational, and experiential joy is always temporary, because the “good” moments those things give us are temporary.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“The more you see your sin, the more you will respond tenderly to other sinners and want for them the same grace you have received. And as you taste new life, you will begin to celebrate, in fresh new ways, the grace that is yours in Christ Jesus.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“The more you see your sin, the more you will respond tenderly to other sinners and want for them the same grace you have received.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Our hope in this life and the one to come is never to be found in our willingness to believe in and follow him, but in his willingness to endure suffering and death for us. His willingness unleashes the grace we need to be forgiven and to become more and more willing to lay down our lives for his kingdom and his glory.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“False religion does not need a Savior. False religion is rooted in human righteousness. Rather than being broken, needy, poor in spirit, crying out for divine rescue, it comforts itself in evidences of its own righteousness.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“The cross welcomes us to look inside and around us and be dissatisfied. It welcomes us not to the dissatisfaction that leaves us hopeless, but a dissatisfaction that leads us to the foot of the cross where mercy and grace are found.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Often we make the mistake of thinking we have a heart for the Lord, when really we're just thankful for him because at that moment he seems to be delivering to us what we have truly set our hearts on. Often we reduce God to just the deliverer of good fits, rather than recognizing him as the ultimate heart-satisfying gift.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“... your alarm that is your conscience only sounds based on the standard that your heart has surrendered to. This means that a good and godly moral value system will all your conscience to function properly, but a bad and self-centered moral value system will mean that your conscience will do you harm.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“This is why confession is such a pleasing sacrifice to your Lord. It requires you to silence all the self-aggrandizing, self-righteous voices in your life. It forces you to admit that you’re way more spiritually needy than you would like to think you are. It asks you to admit that you’re a person in constant need of forgiveness. It causes you to admit that your biggest problem is not your history, your family, your friends, your culture, your economic situation, your church, your neighbors, your age, or your physical condition. Confession requires you to admit that your biggest problems live inside you, in your heart. It smashes any delusion of comfortable independence. It yanks you away from spiritual self-reliance. Confession drives you to the feet of God as your sovereign Lord and Savior, to honor him for who he is, and to cry for help because of who you are. Confession is pleasing to God because it puts you right in the middle of the position you were created to be in: humble, honest dependence on him.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“This death that I have just described is a process of daily scanning our lives to see where things still live in us that should not live, then praying for the strength to die once again. Like the death of Jesus, this death is not a defeat, but a huge and glorious victory. For everywhere you die, you will be resurrected to new life in that area. It is the continuing resurrection/transformation/liberation work of sanctifying grace. So this season, how about scanning your heart and life?”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Because I had been given another gift: the knowledge of a ready, willing, and capable Savior. I had been blessed with the awareness of his offer of forgiveness to all who confess their sin and by faith seek his forgiveness.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Mourning means you recognize the most important reality in the human existence, sin. Mourning means you have been hit by the weight of what it has done to you and to everyone you know.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Someone once said that you never see a person in a protest carrying a sign with an arrow pointing downward and with the words “I am the problem” painted on it.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“Here’s what is important to understand: your groaning is either anger that you’ve not gotten your way or a cry that God would get his holy, loving, wise, and righteous way. Groaning is either, “Will my kingdom ever come?” or it is, “Your kingdom come.” It is good to stop and examine your groaning and to give yourself to a season of the right kind of groaning. After all, you do live in a groaning place. Paul says it this way in Romans 8:22: “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in pains of childbirth until now.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional