The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
TIMOTHY KELLERAll human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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