Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
TIMOTHY KELLER…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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 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.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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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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