It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Many 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.
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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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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