It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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 anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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