If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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