There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
TIMOTHY KELLERFear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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