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.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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