The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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