We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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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 basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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