Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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 key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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