The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERNo one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
TIMOTHY KELLERThis leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhere you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
TIMOTHY KELLERTolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
TIMOTHY KELLERMoney isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
TIMOTHY KELLERLegalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
TIMOTHY KELLER