If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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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 that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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