Do You Believe? Quotes

“need excitement ignited in us again as we acknowledge that there is nothing more freeing, satisfying, and healing than living for the glory of God. This means we need his word pointing us again and again to the centrality of his existence and his glory.”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“Self-glory will turn you into a church consumer instead of a committed participant in its work. Self-glory deceives us, distracts us, and entraps us, and it can ultimately destroy us. Self-glory leaves behind a mountain of broken people and things. It never produces good fruit. Self-glory itself is an argument for how much we need the word of God in our hearts and in our thoughts every single day of our lives. We need the word to point us once more to a glory greater than our own, the only glory that will ever satisfy our hearts. We need our personal stories progressively embedded in the story of the one who made us and designed us to live for his glory. We need to be reminded that the gospel of the grace of Jesus has his lordship at the center. We need to hear again and again that living as his disciples means being willing to forsake everything to follow him. We need to be humbled again and again, to be called back again and again from our self-focus. And we”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“Self-glory will make you an easily irritated, critical, and judgmental parent. Self-glory will turn a marriage into a war of who gets what they want first. Self-glory will make you an exhausting, entitled friend. Self-glory will keep you from being satisfied and make it more natural for you to complain than to be thankful. Self-glory will make you more known for your demands than for your service. Self-glory will cause you again and again to take credit for what you could have never earned or produced on your own. Self-glory will make you threatened by and envious of the success of others.”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“just about forsaking your sin and receiving his forgiveness by faith, but it is also about forsaking your glory for his. But here’s what each of us needs to understand. As long as sin still lives inside of us, there will be a glory war in our hearts. So every day we need to see again that the life we have been welcomed to has God at the center, not us. Every day we need a message that points us to God. Every day we need to be reminded that life is not about our comfort or the success of our plans. It’s not about how many people look up to us and want us in their lives. It’s not about the size of our houses or the quality of our cuisine. It’s not about whether we’re fit and free of disease. Life is about God, his glory, and the success of his purposes in and through us. The Bible points us to this from cover to cover.”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“stage, commanding the attention and credit we think we deserve. But one of the most important things God’s word does is to confront us with another story. In this story we are not at center stage. In this story we were given life and breath to serve the purposes of another, and for the sake of the glory of another. The biblical story starts with God at the center. It chronicles the great glory war, with the great captain, Christ, gaining victory through his death. The war begins in Genesis 3 and will continue until the war is finally won and everything that exists serves God’s glory in the new heavens and new earth. This story reminds us again and again that self-glory is the ultimate human dysfunction and is always self-destructive. It teaches us that self-worship is bondage and true freedom is found only when you surrender your heart to the worship of God. The Bible reminds us that coming to Christ in repentance and faith is not”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“Second Corinthians 5:15 contains a tiny phrase that is not only explosive in its implications, but also points us to one of the most important functions of the word of God in each of our lives: “And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves.” Paul is saying that the DNA of sin is selfishness. Sin puts us in the center of our world and makes life all about us. Sin is about self-focus and self-glory. It is motivated by what we want, when we want it, and how we want it. Sin turns every human being into a glory thief, taking for ourselves what belongs to God alone. Sin is self-congratulatory and self-aggrandizing. Sin causes us to think that we are righteous, wise, and strong, when we are not. Sin makes us rebels, wanting to submit to no one’s law but our own. Sin causes us to write our stories with us at center”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“Your love is never your foundation; his eternal love is. Live in this hope.”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“to close the gap between your confessional theology and your functional theology, and by closing the gap, give the enemy less opportunity to do his evil work.”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“truth like this is revelation that completely changes the posture of my life.”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

“How should we all think about and approach God’s loving and essential gift of his word? We should first approach Scripture with a deep and abiding sense of need. This means that every time we open the book, we pray that God would grant us open eyes and a tender, humble, open, and ready heart. It also means that we don’t read God’s word in a quasi-guilty, sense-of-duty, this-is-what-good-Christians-do sort of way. No, we approach our Bible reading and study with heartfelt joy. What is the DNA of joy? The answer is important: gratitude.”
― Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life