In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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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 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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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