Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
TIMOTHY KELLERMoney isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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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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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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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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