When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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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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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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