To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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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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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 resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Christians 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!
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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 this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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