When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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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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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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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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