Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLEREveryone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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