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.
TIMOTHY KELLEREveryone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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