The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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