Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
TIMOTHY KELLERSo 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).
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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