Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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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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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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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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 purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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