Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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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.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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