The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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 Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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