If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are a totally loved moral failure.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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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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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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