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Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.
— Timothy Keller
The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
— Timothy Keller
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.
— Timothy Keller
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
— Timothy Keller
The essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.
— Timothy Keller
Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that Paul says you can't understand marriage without looking at the gospel.
— Timothy Keller
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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A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he's what you need.
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There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .
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The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.
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Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.
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According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice.
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Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
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We are wired to move through our lives chasing and rehearsing narratives that will promise to bring the world back into balance.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.
— Timothy J. Keller
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.
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If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
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Our greatest motive for surrendering to him cannot be for what he will do in us. It must be to love him for what he did for us. In
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In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why
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The world can't save itself. That's the message of Christmas.
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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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If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.
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Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.
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Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
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Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
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All work, according to God's design, is service.
— Timothy J. Keller
Hope comes not in the solution to the problem but in focusing on Christ, who facilitates the change.
— Timothy J. Keller
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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All life-changing love is inconvenient.
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Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
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Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace.
— Timothy J. Keller
Identity apart from God is inherently unstable.
— Timothy J. Keller
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.
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We know God will answer us when we call because one terrible day he did not answer Jesus when he called.
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Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
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It's a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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I am God and I am coming to find you.
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Job 28 is a magnificent poem that engages the modern technology narrative head-on.
— Timothy J. Keller
Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
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Then, as now, the cities were filled with the poor, and urban Christians' commitment to the poor was visible and striking.
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Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.
— Timothy Keller
John Stott concludes, "It seems to have been Paul's deliberate policy to move purposefully from one strategic city-centre to the next."5
— Timothy J. Keller
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts ... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
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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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Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.
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the natural condition of the human ego: that it is empty, painful, busy and fragile.
— Timothy J. Keller
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
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Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.
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While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
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Self-righteousness is always self-condemnatory. And self-righteousness is the preserve of the moralist.
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Easter means that Christmas worked.
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Only Jesus says, "I have come for the weak. I have come for those who admit they are weak. I will save them not by what they do but through what I do.
— Timothy J. Keller
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
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There is no sin that is a match for God's grace.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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No suffering is for nothing.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere
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Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
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Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
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God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.
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Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.
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Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
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The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.
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A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.
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You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.
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One thing have I desired of the Lord, one thing will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to behold the beauty of the Lord.
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Each genre and part of the Old Testament looks toward Christ and informs us about who he is in some way that the others do not.
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How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
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If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.
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In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.
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Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.
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Public faith means going public with what's in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.
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Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.
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Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
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Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.
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Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties
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Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.
— Timothy Keller