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…
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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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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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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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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