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.
TIMOTHY KELLERGenerosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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