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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThis is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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