The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
TIMOTHY KELLERPrayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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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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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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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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