There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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