Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhat you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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