Tullian Tchividjian Law Quotations

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.