Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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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 basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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