The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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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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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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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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God 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.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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