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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need 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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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