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.
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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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