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 KELLER…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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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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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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