Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
TIMOTHY KELLER…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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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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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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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