If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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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 resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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