Christ-centered living versus the tendency to shrink our lives
“Transcendent living is Christ-centered living. Living for Christ is the only way you will ever be liberated from your bondage to the overwhelming tendency to shrink the size of your life to the size of your life. The only way to spin free of the narrow confines of your little cubicle kingdom is to live in the big sky country of Christ-centered living. You will never win the battle with yourself simply by saying ‘no’ to yourself. The battle only begins to be won when you say ‘yes’ to the call of your King, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
- Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More (Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2007), 99.
“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.” (p. 105)
Ripped straight from Of First Importance . I highly recommend having their RSS feed , daily email or heading to their site each day for quotes like this.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Wow, wow, wow! That quote from Tripp is absolutely amazing. I am adding the feed to my list right now.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Not I, But Christ…
Fr. Stephen, again in a wonderful post about what it means to live in the image of Christ, says this:
The moralist approach [to being like Christ] (which I was taught as a child) is fraught with constant attention to ‘what would Jesus do?’ in …