The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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