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.
TIMOTHY KELLERNo, 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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 prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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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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