The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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