If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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