How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
TIMOTHY KELLEROnly on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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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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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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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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