The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are a totally loved moral failure.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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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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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created 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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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