We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
TIMOTHY KELLERA life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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