Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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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 gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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