When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
TIMOTHY KELLERGod’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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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