Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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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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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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