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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

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 basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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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.
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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.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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.

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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.

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