Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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