If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERChrist did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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