Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Many 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.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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You 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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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