What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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