God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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 key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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