Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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 Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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