How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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 gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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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 gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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