You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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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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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 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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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 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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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