When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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 only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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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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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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