The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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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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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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