How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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