The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides 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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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