Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
TIMOTHY KELLERThe world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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