After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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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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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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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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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