We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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