In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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 Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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