Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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