Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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