Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your 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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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 Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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