If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are a totally loved moral failure.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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