Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
TIMOTHY KELLERYou can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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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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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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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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