Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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 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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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