Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
TIMOTHY KELLERTrust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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