Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERMany times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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