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 KELLERGod sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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 gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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 Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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