The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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 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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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