How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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