Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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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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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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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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