As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
TIMOTHY KELLERMoney isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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 not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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 not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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