The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)
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Tara Leigh Cobble
It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it! ” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of...
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John Piper
God created me–and you–to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion–namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
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John Piper
The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in...
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Tara Leigh Cobble
You won’t ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won’t change until you change how you think”.
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Michele Woolley
More Quotes By Tullian Tchividjian
The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify...
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
