The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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