Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
TIMOTHY KELLERIn religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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