The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
TIMOTHY KELLERMen, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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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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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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