black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.

Related Topics

Create Earn Jesus Life Religion Say Secular Society

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Created Desire Effort Everything Love Make Someone
Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
TIMOTHY KELLER

Accept Acceptable God Gospel Obey Operate Principle Religion
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Fail Grace More Much Need Remember Save Succeed
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.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Brother Exert Instinctively Jesus Limit Ourselves Race
In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Astonished Before Fear Joyful Language Lord Mean Original Sustain Wonderful
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Create Earn Jesus Life Religion Say Secular Society
God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Acknowledge Admit Christian Come Failure God Grace Morally Other Outperform People Religious
The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Advice Done God Gospel News Reach Rech
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Enter Gospel Kingdom Live Only Way
The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Creation Escape Jesus Purpose Put Renew Restore Right World
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Fear Greatness Lord Love Overwhelmed
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Forgiveness Forgiving God Radical Seen Sin Thought
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Advice Done Good New News Report
How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
TIMOTHY KELLER

Behavior Bless Change Worship
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Both Cost Destroy Grace Grasp Infinitely Need Ridicule Righteousness Save Self Sinner Unworthy

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes