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.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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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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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 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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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