Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
TIMOTHY KELLER
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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