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.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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…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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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