The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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 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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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