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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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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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God 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.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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