When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
TIMOTHY KELLERYet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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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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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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