We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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