If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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