Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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 makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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 key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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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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