Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
TIMOTHY KELLEROur character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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 good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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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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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