Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
TIMOTHY KELLERTolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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