Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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