You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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 the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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