Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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