When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
TIMOTHY KELLERNo, 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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