When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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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 more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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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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