The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
TIMOTHY KELLERAll human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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 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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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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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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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