Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
TIMOTHY KELLERYet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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