The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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 Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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 reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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