Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Religion: ‘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.’
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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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