Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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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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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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