When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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