The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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 are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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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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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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