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.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo 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.
TIMOTHY KELLEROnly on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
TIMOTHY KELLERPride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
TIMOTHY KELLERAfter creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod 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.
TIMOTHY KELLERForgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
TIMOTHY KELLERAre you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
TIMOTHY KELLERYou can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
TIMOTHY KELLER…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLERSo we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
TIMOTHY KELLERFaith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
TIMOTHY KELLERPrayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod 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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