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25 More of My Favorite Quotes from Paul Tripp’s Everyday Gospel: A Daily Devotional Connecting Scripture to All of Life

Over the past year, I used Paul Tripp’s Everyday Gospel as a part of my devotional reading. In the book, Tripp takes us through the entire Bible over 365 days. Beginning in Genesis, each day has a few chapters assigned to read, and Tripp then writes a devotion to go along with those chapters. I chose to use the free ESV Bible App to listen to these chapters as I did my daily walks of our neighborhood.

I found this book to be a valuable resource to assist me as I read through the entire Bible in a year, and highly recommend it to you.

I previously shared 25 of my favorite quotes from the book. Be encouraged by these 25 more quotes from Everyday Gospel:

• Our standing before God is based not on our righteousness but on the perfect righteousness of Jesus.
• Our hope in life and death rests on our Savior’s faithfulness, not our own.
• In the darkness of the days we live in, do not panic. Our Lord is on his throne in power and glory, and he will win.
• Once God has chosen you as his own, you cannot outrun his grace.
• As a wise Father, God always knows what is best for his children. His plans are always best. His way is always right. We will never know more than he knows or be wiser than he is.
• The power of prayer is not in the beauty of my language or in my track record of righteousness, but in the character of the one to whom I pray.
• You may not always see God’s hand, but you can rest assured that your Lord never ceases working for your good and his glory.
• Prayer is not about bringing your list of wants or perceived needs to God and asking him to sign off. No, prayer is surrendering all your wants and desires to the perfect plan and will of your heavenly Father.
• The theology that you actually believe is always exhibited by the way you live. For too many of us, a disconcerting gap lies between what we say we believe and the way we live.
• You will walk through dark valleys, but your identity and future are secured by the fact that the steadfast love of the Lord endures forever. May this shape the way you think about your life as a child of grace.
• Contentment depends not on your situation but on the heart that you bring to each situation.
• Joy in labor is possible only when you are thankful that God has provided you with a job and the ability to work.
• Although we face hardship, disappointment, and suffering, our lives are built on Jesus the sure foundation. We have a security that can never be shaken.
• In his greatness, God has more than enough power to meet you in your weakness and to empower you to be what he has redeemed you to be and to do what he has redeemed you to do.
• If you forget or minimize the extent to which Jesus had to suffer in order to deal with your sin, then you will forget or minimize the gravity of your sin.
• The Sabbath is for us. It gives us regular times of rest without feeling guilty that we are not being productive. It calls us out of the distracting clamor of our daily lives into worship, reminding us that our identity, meaning, purpose, and hope are found in the Lord alone.
• God will crush evil and restore and purify his people. Evil will not win. Renewal is on the way. There’s reason for hope.
• It is important to remember that God’s grace never calls wrong right. Grace reminds us of sin’s consequences and then offers us forgiveness and the power to say no.
• An idol of the heart is anything other than God that you allow to rule your heart.
• On the cross of Jesus Christ, God’s anger with sin and his grace toward the sinner embrace. There we find everything we need to finally be what we were created to be and to live as God designed us to live.
• Hope is found in only one place: the power of our Lord to bring dry bones together again and breathe life into them. Our God has the power to bring life out of what is dead.
• As you look at broken things in your life, remember that your Lord is the Lord of fresh starts and new beginnings. Because of his grace, what seems irreparably damaged can be restored and live anew.
• The life of faith is about standing at the intersection of brokenness and longing, not questioning God’s presence, power, or goodness, but continuing to trust and obey, assured that he still rules and is marching his world toward the fullness of all he has promised.
• God makes it clear in his word that, for our good and his glory, he will lead us through the unexpected, the unwanted, and the difficult.
• When I root my identity in the eternal grace and love of God rather than in an ever-changing world, temporary situations, relationships, or achievements, I can live with peace and security of heart, no matter how my circumstances might change.