Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
TIMOTHY KELLERAll human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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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 became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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 gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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