Tullian Tchividjian Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or that others construct for you. Rather, He is interested in you, the you who suffers, the you who inflicts suffering on others, the you who hides, the you who has bad days (and good ones). And He meets you where you are.

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  Bad Day, Thinking, Suffering

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.92, David C Cook

• 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.

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  Christian, Broken, Suffering

  "Where Is God in Our Suffering? Tullian Tchividjian's 'Glorious Ruin' Offers New Perspective". Interview with Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. October 30, 2012.

• Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

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  Strong, Two, Suffering

  Twitter post from May 20, 2015

• We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

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  Suffering, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• ...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

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  Suffering, Culture, Dishonesty

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.16, David C Cook

• Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

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  Dream, Teenager, Loss

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.208, David C Cook

• We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

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  Suffering, Innocent, Victim

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

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  Suffering, Needs, Littles

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

• I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

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  Letting Go, Book, Exercise

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

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  Pain, Suffering, Weakness

• The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Suffering

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.195, David C Cook

• For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

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  Suffering, Chiefs, Concern

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.26, David C Cook

• We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

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  Suffering, Responsible, Combat

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.38, David C Cook

• The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.

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  Pain, Reality, Suffering

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

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  Confusion, Suffering, Truth Is

  "Where Is God in Our Suffering? Tullian Tchividjian's 'Glorious Ruin' Offers New Perspective". Interview with Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. October 30, 2012.

• If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

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  Jobs, Divorce, Loss

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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