The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERFaith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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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 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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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 sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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