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 KELLERIn the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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