Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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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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