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Timothy Keller Inspirational Quotes (326)

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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
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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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Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.
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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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Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.
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We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know
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God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
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In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.
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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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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.
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Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
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If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.
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I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.
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Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
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Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.
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Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
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Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.
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Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.
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Prayer turns theology into experience.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.
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Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.
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There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
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I am God and I am coming to find you.
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