It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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 are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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