All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
TIMOTHY KELLERMoney isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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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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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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