Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLER
After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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 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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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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 prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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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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…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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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