…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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