In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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