How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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