The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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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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