To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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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 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 is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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