No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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The 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.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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 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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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