Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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