…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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 resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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