You are a totally loved moral failure.
TIMOTHY KELLERA life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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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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…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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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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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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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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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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Faith is not primarily a function of how 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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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