If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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.’
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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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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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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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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