Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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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 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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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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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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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