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Faith & Spirit Quote by Tim Tebow

"And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve"

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Tebow’s line is less a theological treatise than a cultural coping strategy: a way to frame relentless public scrutiny as personal progress. Coming from an athlete whose career was as famous for its spectacle as its stats, the phrasing matters. “The great thing” signals testimonial mode, the language of locker-room speeches and postgame interviews where emotion needs a clean container. It’s faith as a performance of steadiness: not perfection, not a sudden conversion montage, but a daily habit.

The intent is motivational, but the subtext is defensive in a savvy way. By emphasizing “trying,” Tebow lowers the stakes of failure without surrendering the demand to strive. That word quietly rebukes both cynics and purists: critics who mock religious sincerity, and believers who talk like sanctification is a finished product. “Get better every day” translates doctrine into the American self-improvement dialect, the same one used for film study and reps. Faith becomes a training regimen, which is exactly why the message travels so easily beyond church walls.

Contextually, Tebow emerged during an era when athletes’ public piety was treated as either branding or controversy. This quote sidesteps the culture-war trap by staying intimate and process-oriented. It doesn’t ask the audience to sign on to a creed; it invites them to respect a discipline. That’s the rhetorical win: conviction softened into aspiration, certainty recast as work.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Tebow, Tim. (2026, January 17). And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-thats-the-great-thing-about-living-the-63677/

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Tebow, Tim. "And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-thats-the-great-thing-about-living-the-63677/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-thats-the-great-thing-about-living-the-63677/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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