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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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