In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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…
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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