In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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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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