The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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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 should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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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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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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