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 KELLERLove is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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