Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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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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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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