You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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 that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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 tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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