How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
TIMOTHY KELLERIf God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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