Tullian Tchividjian Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.”

“We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.”

“A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.”

“The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.”

“I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.”

“Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.”

“The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.”

“When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.”

“Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.”

“From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.”