A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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