We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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 I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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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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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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 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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