Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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