To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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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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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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