It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY KELLERWorry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on 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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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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 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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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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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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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