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 KELLERTrust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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