The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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