How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
TIMOTHY KELLERChrist’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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