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.
TIMOTHY KELLERAre you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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