When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols 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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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