We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
TIMOTHY KELLERIn religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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