You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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So 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).
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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.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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