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 KELLERWe were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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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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