Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
TIMOTHY KELLERForgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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 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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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