We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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