The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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 gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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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 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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