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.
TIMOTHY KELLERA life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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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 you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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