You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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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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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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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 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 essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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