Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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