If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
TIMOTHY KELLERFear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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