Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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 gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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