Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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Christians 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!
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The 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.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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