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"Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'"
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Source: Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.178, Penguin
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