The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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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.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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