God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
TIMOTHY KELLERWe need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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