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Grace Quotes by Timothy Keller

48 Grace quotes by Timothy Keller

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Everyone needs grace, whether they think they are good or bad, writes Timothy Keller. He explains that grace feels humbling because it costs the giver, yet it lifts us up when we recognize our own flaws. He also notes that true humility lets us receive grace without expecting anything in return.

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If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

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Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

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God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

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Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

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Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

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If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

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There is no sin that is a match for God's grace.

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The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have…

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It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

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Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance…

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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect…

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“Lord make me happy enough in the grace of Jesus to avoid being proud, cold, scared, and hooked.”

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Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because…

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The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

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If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is…

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“Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the…

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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,…

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Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in…

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“Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find…

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[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is…

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An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when…

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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is…

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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show…

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For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish…

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If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly,…

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“If we are saved by grace alone, this salvation is a constant source of amazed delight. Nothing is mundane or matter-of-fact about…

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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,…

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So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance…

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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…

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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…

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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..

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Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

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On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He…

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If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

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…

“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When…

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.