Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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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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