No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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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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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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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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…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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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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