The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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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 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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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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