Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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…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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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