The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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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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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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