The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
TIMOTHY KELLERMen, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERThere are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
TIMOTHY KELLERForgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
TIMOTHY KELLERA life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf 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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
TIMOTHY KELLERLove is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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