If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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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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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.
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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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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at 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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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