Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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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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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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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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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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