If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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 not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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