God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuccess and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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