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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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