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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.

Timothy Keller

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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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.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.

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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.

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