Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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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.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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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 need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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