Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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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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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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 resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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