Tim Keller (pastor) - Grace Quotes

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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 acknowledge their need for a Savior.

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There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

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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, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

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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 hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

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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.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

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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 of grace.

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

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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 but on the saving work of Christ.

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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

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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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Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

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