When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
TIMOTHY KELLERNothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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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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