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.
TIMOTHY KELLERTo discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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