You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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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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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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