To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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