The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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 more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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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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