The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are a totally loved moral failure.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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