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 KELLERMany times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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