{"author":"Tullian Tchividjian","author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian","total_quotes":47,"quotes":[{"text":"The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["life","stress","depression "],"id":9116,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["grace"],"id":11521,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["dependency","glory-of-god","suffering"],"id":47610,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["christian","god","hope"],"id":55635,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["christ","idolatry"],"id":62464,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"The smaller you get—the smaller life makes you—the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["adversity","grace","hardship","sovereignty-of-god"],"id":73895,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["freedom","grace"],"id":80887,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["god-the-father","grace","love"],"id":87634,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["christian","christ","become "],"id":88961,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"},{"text":"Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.","author":"Tullian Tchividjian","tags":["identity","performance "],"id":106860,"author_id":"Tullian+Tchividjian"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}