Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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God’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.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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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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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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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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