What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
TIMOTHY KELLERLove is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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