The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
TIMOTHY KELLERTrust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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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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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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 gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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