To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
TIMOTHY KELLERPride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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 gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need 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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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