What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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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 humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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