How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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