…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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 sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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