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.
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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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