Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERMany 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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 resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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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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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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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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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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