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.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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