The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLER…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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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 Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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