We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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