Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
TIMOTHY KELLERThis leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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