The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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 instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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