The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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