The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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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.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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