Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
TIMOTHY KELLERI am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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