The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERAs long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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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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