No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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