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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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 key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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