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.
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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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