If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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We 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.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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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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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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