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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

Timothy Keller

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Absorb Always Come Cost Forgiveness Grant One Retaliate
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Character Community Converse Eat Mainly Person Play Primarily Social Strap Study
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Justified Justify Living Yourself
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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Affirm Denial Flaw Giving Keep Love Marriage Sentimentality Support Truth
Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Despite Faith Feel Living Out Truth
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Christianity Heart Humble Lying Religious Truth
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Anything Crush Expectation Love More Object Under Weight World
The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Due Joy Lack Life Mission
Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Accept Accepted Bible Different Every Gospel Page Religion Show Utterly
When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Attractive Cross Down Give Jesus Look Myself Think
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Comfort Fear Fully Greatest Know Love Superficial True Love
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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Acknowledge Admit Christian Come Failure God Grace Morally Other Outperform People Religious
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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Accept Doe God Grace Leave Love See
There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Become Believe Hurt Real Relationship Vulnerable
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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Anyone Deed Humanity Less Myself Nothing Superior Swagger Think Undermine
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Base Bases Fear Hate Joy Make Ourselves Repentance Sin

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