Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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