The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
TIMOTHY KELLERThere is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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