Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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 cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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