When 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.
TIMOTHY KELLERI am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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 gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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