Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
TIMOTHY KELLERLegalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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 Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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