God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
TIMOTHY KELLEROnly on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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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