God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
TIMOTHY KELLEREvery single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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