The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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No, 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.
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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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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 way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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