When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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 harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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