Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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 not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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