“The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.” ShouldHeartSelfHandsEmbraceFocusedKingdoms Book:A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You Source: A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You
“We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.” NeedsLittlesSelfDesireKingsPopulationFocusedSatisfiedKingdomsMeant To BeFulfilledRuling Author:Paul David Tripp
“When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.” SelfRunningSinRighteousnessExposedConfessionJustificationSelf RighteousnessSelf Justification Author:Paul David Tripp
“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.” SelfChristGraceProduceSinnerOnly LoveBaneSturdy Book:A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You Source: A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You
“Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving” PersonsDoeSelfLove IsSacrificeWillingDeservingSelf SacrificeBeing Loved Author:Paul David Tripp
“Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.” GivingSelfRunningSinGraceWillingnessRighteousnessSelf RighteousSelf RighteousnessSeparateness Author:Paul David Tripp
“Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.” IfsNeedsHumansPersonsHas BeensSelfLawLyingChristGraceBirthEmbraceDenySavingSatanRighteousnessResurrectionRighteousLife DeathEnablingSelf RighteousSelf RighteousnessBirth Life Author:Paul David Tripp
