It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Religion 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.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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.’
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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