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 KELLERReligion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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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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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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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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