How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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