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Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

Timothy Keller

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I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.
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To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
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Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
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Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
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God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
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The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.
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Jesus does not just bring good news he is the good news.
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One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
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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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No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.
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If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?
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There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
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Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
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How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
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We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.
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When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.
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While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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