How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
TIMOTHY KELLERMen, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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If 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.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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 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 didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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