The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
TIMOTHY KELLERThose who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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