If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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 Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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