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.’
TIMOTHY KELLERIf 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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