How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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The 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
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