Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
TIMOTHY KELLERThis 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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