In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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