Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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The 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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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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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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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