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 KELLERAfter creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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 this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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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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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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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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