How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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…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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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