Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
TIMOTHY KELLER
This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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God’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.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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