You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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