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.
TIMOTHY KELLERFear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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