The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
TIMOTHY KELLERThose who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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 Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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