Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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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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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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