A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You
Paul David Tripp
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.”
“Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.”
“It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.”
“If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.”
“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.”
“We weren’t created to find our satisfaction in the little, earthbound kingdom treasures of the here and now. We were created to seek a better treasure, and in so doing to be eternally grateful and satisfied.”
“In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There is a compelling tendency to forget who you are and what you were made for. There is a tendency to be shortsighted, myopic, and easily distracted. There is a tendency to settle for less when you have been created for more. There is something expansive, glorious, and eternal that is meant to give direction to everything you do.”
“you become like the treasure that you seek.”
“The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.”
“Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.”
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