It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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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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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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.
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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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