How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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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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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 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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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