Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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 great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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 anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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