You are a totally loved moral failure.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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 purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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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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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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