All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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 gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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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 is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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