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.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to 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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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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