The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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