In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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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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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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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