Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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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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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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