You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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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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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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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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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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