{"author":"Paul David Tripp","author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"If I am seeking to get identity from you ,I will watch you too closely, listen to you too intently, and need you to fundamentally. I will ride the roller coaster of your best and worst moments and everything in between. And because I am watching you too closely, I will become acutely aware of your weaknesses and failures. I will become overly critical, frustrated, disappointed, hopeless, and angry. I will be angry not because you are a sinner but because you have failed to deliver the one thing I seek from you: identity. But none of us will ever get the well-being that comes from knowing who we are from our relationships. Instead we will be left with damaged relationships filled with hurt, frustration and anger.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["relationship"],"id":8992,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"God’s grace invites you to be part of something that is far greater than your boldest and most expansive dream. His grace cuts a hole in your self-built prison and invites you to step into something so huge, so significant that only one word in the Bible can adequately capture it. That word is glory.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["favorite","quote"],"id":13008,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["explanation","fallen","imaginations","people","struggling"],"id":17929,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"Real comfort is found when I understand that I am held in the hollow of the hand of the One who created and rules all things. The most valuable thing in my life is God's love, a love that no one can take away. When my identity is rooted in him, the storms of trouble will not blow me away. This is the comfort we offer people. We don't comfort them by saying things will work out. They may not. The people around them may change, but they may not. The Bible tells us again and again that everything around us is in the process of being taken away. God and his love are all that remain as cultures and kingdoms rise and fall. Comfort is found by sinking our roots into the unseen reality of God's ever-faithful love.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["christianity","counseling","theology"],"id":24902,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get 'fixed.' It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["christianity","inspirational","ministry"],"id":28111,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["christ","church","confession","conversion","forgiveness","paul-david-tripp","purpose","reconciliation","repentance","sanctification"],"id":40102,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["blessings","grace","gratitude","inspiration"],"id":42536,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["gospel","marriage"],"id":47218,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to wait when you would really like to act. Love calls you to stop when you really want to continue and it calls you to continue when you feel like stopping. Love requires you to lead when you really would like to follow, and to follow when you really want to lead. Love again and again calls you away from your instincts and your comfort. Love always requires personal sacrifice. Love calls you to give up your life.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["love","marriage","sacrifice"],"id":48341,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["christian-living","christianity","forgiveness"],"id":62080,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}