The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLER
Yet 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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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