The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
TIMOTHY KELLERI am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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 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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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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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