This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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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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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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