The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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