Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
TIMOTHY KELLERFaith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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 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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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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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