Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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