Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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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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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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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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