It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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 were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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 does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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