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).
TIMOTHY KELLERNo one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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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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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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