Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLERWorry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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