This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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