Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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