A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
TIMOTHY KELLERMoney isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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 prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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