The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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